Reply #17: When used to illustrate an argument about public policy, such stories are perfectly appropriate

[Euromutt]

Yet another news story of an illegally possessed firearm used to commit an illegal act isnot, in and of itself, all that interesting in the Guns forum if posted without some comment on one's own part.

Try to keep up.

In your post #12; you asked whether "the misuse of firearms should not be allowed," not whether "discussion concerning the misuse of firearms should not be allowed." As XKCD put it so beautifully, "Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness" (http://xkcd.com/169/).