San Antonio, Texas - Last month, an employee at a China
Garden restaurant went berserk with a gun, firing indiscriminately at patrons
and chasing someone into the Santikos Mayan Palace 14 movie theater, police
said, where he fired more shots and struck someone.
A Bexar County sheriff's sergeant, working off-duty as a
security guard at the theater, ended what could've been a massacre when she
shot Jesus Manuel Garcia several times and took his gun.
The story was plunked into the cauldron of the right-wing blogosphere, where it caught fire across the nation Saturday and mustered more page views in a few days than any other story last year.
The national gun debate certainly fueled its proliferation online. Three days after a massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., left 20 children and six adults dead, Gov. Rick Perry told a tea party gathering in Tarrant County that schoolteachers and administrators should carry concealed weapons. A few days later, the National Rifle Association prescribed armed guards for every school in America.
In the story of the blunted rampage in San Antonio, denizens of a particularly rabid genus of conservative blog read a validation of two core beliefs: Public safety requires more guns, not fewer; and national media are biased against gun rights. Full Article
The story was plunked into the cauldron of the right-wing blogosphere, where it caught fire across the nation Saturday and mustered more page views in a few days than any other story last year.
The national gun debate certainly fueled its proliferation online. Three days after a massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., left 20 children and six adults dead, Gov. Rick Perry told a tea party gathering in Tarrant County that schoolteachers and administrators should carry concealed weapons. A few days later, the National Rifle Association prescribed armed guards for every school in America.
In the story of the blunted rampage in San Antonio, denizens of a particularly rabid genus of conservative blog read a validation of two core beliefs: Public safety requires more guns, not fewer; and national media are biased against gun rights. Full Article
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