Erick Erickson | Erick on the Radio.com
This past Friday, a lunatic who lived in a shack with no running water or electricity killed three people in Colorado Springs, CO. He wound up going into a Planned Parenthood facility. Three people were killed. None of those were abortionists or patients.
There is one surprising thing about the Colorado Springs shooting at the Planned Parenthood clinic. It is that it is a rare event.
According to NARAL, there have been eight people killed and seventeen injured in attacks on American abortion providers in twenty-five years. And they have been getting rarer: this is only the second such killing – after the 2009 murder of George Tiller – in this century. In Chicago-alone, over Thanksgiving weekend, there were eight people killed and twenty wounded.
Islamic terrorists have killed more than eight hundred this year. But the left would have you believe pro-lifers are just as bad, just as violent, and a bigger domestic threat.
A quick note regarding the emphasized sentence: First, I did that. Second, these numbers relate to shootings only; thousands of women have been injured and millions killed by American abortion providers in the past 25 years, by design.
