Just think about the guy on the Greyhound in Saskatchewan cutting the head off a fellow passenger ( a couple of years back). If folk had carried (or were allowed to carry), the head might not have come off (except maybe the fellow who did the cutting. By the way, last I heard, he was out walking free.

Rapper “Killer Mike” gets it correct ( I never heard of him but he gets it right).

http://www.mediaite.com/online/killer-mike-on-charleston-i-wish-those-folks-in-that-church-had-been-armed/

The reality of existence demands that some responsible person might have been inconspicuously armed in that congregation. To insist that there should be no firearms in a church is an ideal and naive wish, we do not live in an ideal world, we live in reality where when you refuse to recognize reality, as uncomfortable as it may be, you create a situation where the innocent among us can be preyed upon, abused and murdered. Reality is offensive to many. From today on I am hopeful there will be less incidents like Charlotte.

Obama being a moral literalist and his agenda in office, demands that he by design must vilify firearms in general and the Second Amendment specifically when ever the opportunity presents itself. His agenda expressed in his own words and his actions in fact creates a higher pressure atmosphere where the insane and the fringe player among us is encouraged to commit these heinous and inhuman acts like the disgusting events that have occurred previously and in Charlotte the other day.

Until God himself comes down from on high and purifies the human race of the hatred and tendency to abuse power there is no other counter balance to the insane who would murder, the fringe player, the racist, the criminal, the rapist, the terrorist, the extremist and the government that would enslave their own people, the Second Amendment is and will remain necessary and relevant until that moment.

Some may see that fact as being sad and unreasonable but that is reality.

Let’s be clear: the president has the problem backward. The problem was that the people who needed protection had too much trouble getting *their* hands on a gun. It is the gun-free zones — such as churches, schools, and movie theaters — where the massacres that Obama laments occur. These are victim-rich zones, where someone who wants to inflict harm is most likely to go to do so. Massacres do not occur in gun-rich zones, such as police stations.

In fact, it is rare that gunmen attempt to cause their havoc in places that they know are gun-rich zones, and on those occasions that they do, they have trouble inflicting their harm. The recent Dallas police station incident is a fine example. In that case, the gunman did not even wound a single person. The reason is that the intended victims in the police station did not end up like those in the church, because they were able to defend themselves and drive off the attacker.

In the Charleston church, however, the victims could only cower helplessly as their attacker reloaded and reloaded again and again.

When seconds count, people have to be able to defend themselves, because when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Unless they are already on the scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vDA9CIj93c (1 minute)

As for why the American press likely will go on and on about Charleston and ignore similar events in the middle East is that the events in the Middle East do not help to advance the press’s ulterior motives of disarming all law abiding Americans. Perhaps they think (backward, like the president) that we will break the law but the lawbreakers won’t.