The Knoxville murders

This story has been making the rounds on right wing blogs for awhile but I haven't studied the details until recently. Tuesday, to be exact. Here's how Memphis Steve described it (warning, it's graphic):

5 carjackers pulled Channon and Christopher from Channon's vehicle at gunpoint. They tied and blindfolded the couple and took them to Davidson's home where they all took turns raping Christoper in front of Channon. Then, they cut Christopher's penis off. They then shot him several times. Then they set him on fire. Once he was completely burned, they threw his body alongside the railroad tracks.

Now that Christopher was dead and gone, these 5 Rainbow-Pony children of high self-esteem turned their attention to Channon. For the next 2 days, they beat her, gang-raped her as they had first done to Christopher, peed on her, cut off one of her breasts, and then poured bleach down her throat just for fun. Then, as they had done when finished with Christopher, they shot her several times, and set her on fire.

Quite horrifying, even if there's more to the story we don't know about. Imagine the grief and rage shared by the surviving family members?

In retrospect if there's anything good about the story not receiving national attention it's the fact that so far we've been spared of the cretins who'd try to dream up excuses for their actions.

Michelle Malkin was pinch hitting for O'Reilly Tuesday night and had Ellis Hennican as a guest to discuss the coverage. He rather ridiculously tried to argue it was simply another run of the mill grisly murder with no special national significance. Is that not racist in and of itself? Michelle fired back and charged the major media newsrooms with using their 20 foot poles because most MSM playbooks show that hate crimes can only go one direction.

For instance, nobody in their right mind would believe that if the roles were reversed this wouldn't be the number one headline in the nation. Remember the dragging death of James Byrd, an event inserted into the 2000 presidential campaign? It certainly got the attention it deserved. Recall the Duke non-rape case was top billing on Greta and CNN for nearly a year.

But there's another big reason this story has been ignored in my opinion--it's a gun story. Just like the Virginia Tech shooting this case would surely give rise to debate over the merits of gun-control and self-defense and they know which way a majority of the population would come down. Guessing here, but it probably wouldn't follow the playbook.