Minneapolis Star Tribune Tries to Paint Bad Guys as “Good”

In an article titled “Bad guys use ‘good guys’ to get their guns,” The Minneapolis Star Tribune attempts to paint the example of Brian Greer Murphy as par for the course. Murphy was buying guns legally, and passing them on to “criminal customers who could not legally buy their own.” This is an attempt by the mainstream media to suggest this is how most guns end up in the hands of criminals, and it suggests that “good guys” are getting guns to “bad guys.”

The problem is that Murphy shouldn’t be described as “good” at all. He was just a bad guy who wasn’t caught yet, and as the article shows he did get caught. He isn’t the exception to the rule, as one of millions of people doing this. Records are kept and anyone who tries to supply guns to gang bangers or other criminals is going to leave a paper trail. Unlike money, which can essentially laundered through legitimate businesses, it is very hard to do this with guns. But papers such as the Star Tribune buy into this myth that all illegal guns were once legal.

Worse still is that because of people like Murphy, gun control groups call for stricter laws that would control what law-abiding citizens can buy and own. Again, we must ask, why are the innocent punished for the crimes of the few?