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Lets take a look at three news stories that I've been reading today. Firstly, a budding mechanic:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7091904.stm  

The man ... had removed all but one of the nuts on the right rear wheel. Frustrated by the one remaining nut which refused to budge, he resorted to fire power in an effort to shift it.

Secondly, the brutal uprising of man's best friend: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7068549.stm

Alan Foster, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, told the AFP news agency it was not uncommon for hunters to be shot by their dogs.

Thirdly, one of the big news stories of this past week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7082795.stm

An 18-year-old man killed five boys, two girls and the female principal of Jokela High School.

I'm all for humourous news articles, I hate reading newspapers and watching the news when all they talk about is death and destruction, but this is borderline hypocrisy. It fascinates me that from the huge number of gun murders and injuries, it is the light-hearted stories which they invariably use, unless we have a large-scale news story, such as the school shooting, in which case we'll inevitably see the media adopt an anti-gun stance. Maybe I just don't find guns funny, but I don't think that they should be giving humourous angles when they'll no doubt be returning to their anti-gun articles as soon as the next major tragedy occurs.