Ban High Capacity Cabs!

The Big Guy sends this oddball story out of California:

Twenty-five injured when San Diego cabbie drives into crowd in Gaslamp District

Twenty-five persons were injured, including a young woman who had her leg severed, when a cabdriver drove onto a sidewalk and smashed into a crowd in San Diego's Gaslamp District entertainment zone early Saturday, police said.

Twenty-three were taken to hospitals, six reportedly in critical condition. The cabdriver was pulled from his vehicle by the crowd and beaten, suffering a broken nose, police said.

(emphasis mine) Gee, who'da thunk it? Mow people down indiscriminately, get a beating when you finally stop? I'm sure that there's a perfectly good reason that this guy just drove slowly through a crowd running people over, there's simply no reason to resort to violence people! And yes, it's possible that the cab driver had some sort of medical condition and the folks who pulled him from his cab didn't understand or were too drunk to care.

But it is interesting that when more than two dozen people are injured by someone's actions with a car it's little more than a footnote, a passing story of limited local interest. Contrast that to pretty much any story involving a firearm, of course, and the media's obvious anti-gun bias comes shining through. As weerdbeard will attest, those deaths and injuries are fine and dandy when done with a car, but evil incarnate when performed with a firearm.

Besides, if you outlaw cabs, only cab drivers will be outlaws...

That is all.