One of the most amazing stories was just broadcast on a Pittsburgh news channel as if it were important. Today, this makes the news: BB hits cat, cat doing well:
BELLEVUE, Pa. —
“A Bellevue man was arrested earlier this month after admitting to shooting his cousin’s cat with a BB gun.
According to the criminal complaint, Timothy Wynn, 20, told police he shot the cat inside an apartment on Balph Street on Nov. 4 because it scratched him.
Police sad Wynn claimed to have also shot his dog and that the dog “didn’t mind.”
Wynn was charged with two counts of animal cruelty and was set to have a mental evaluation.
During their investigation police seized a BB handgun and a bolt action air rifle.
“I don’t believe in that. I don’t believe in cruelty to animals at all,” neighbor Sean Copeland said. “You shouldn’t have an animal if you’re going to treat it like that. I definitely wouldn’t shoot my animal or dog or cat.”
A family member told Channel 11’s Vince Sims that the cat survived the shooting and is doing well.”
The TV station decided that there is so little of any interest happening that a reporter, cameraman, editor, and writer had to spend time on this “story”. The wonderfully “no news” story was accompanied by the usual self-righteous neighbor. In this case, Sean Copeland announced the obvious, predictable, and sought-for moral pronouncement: “You shouldn’t have an animal if you’re going to treat it like that.”
To make sure that every viewer would know that he was a superior sort of fellow, Sean let us all know, “I definitely wouldn’t shoot animal or dog or cat.” Many viewers and readers were consciously and sub-consciously relieved to know that animals were safe in at least one home in Timothy Winn’s neighborhood.
“Good for Sean!”, many viewers said to themselves, hoping as they did so that they would have the opportunity to say the very same thing, perhaps even nodding more emphatically than Sean, if they were approached by a TV cameraman and reporter covering the brutal bb gun shooting of a cat in their neighborhood.
It’s good that we have TV. Without it, who would realize that this could rise to the level of actual news: BB hits cat, cat doing well. Back in the days when boys were boys, lots cats were hit with bbs. It wasn’t news, then. But, it is, now.
Not long ago, it was against the law to kill unborn babies. Then, no one cared much if the occasional cat got hit with a bb gun. Now, millions of unborn babies are killed every year, and the shooting of a cat, which has recovered, with a bb gun, has risen to the level that it is followed by arrest, “mental evaluation”, and TV coverage.
The people who control TV news have now decided that it’s newsworthy when a cat gets hit by a bb. But, they did not cover one, a dozen, a hundred, or a thousand unborn babies who were destroyed in that same hour, day, week, or month.
The important question: Has God turned His face from those who cannot recognize such “news”stories as intentional smokescreens broadcast to hide far greater evils?
