Monday, February 3, 2014
The Banned Super Bowl Pro-Gun Commercial
Naturally they left out the part about how the wife and kid are in greater danger of death or injury be having a gun in the home. They didn't mention that the chance of using the gun to save the day is remote compared to the possibility that it will one day be misused.
Most gun owners make the stupidest decision of their lives in a fear-driven distorted attempt at making themselves and their families safer. One of the first ways these guns are misused is that 500,000 of them are stolen each year, year in and year out, mostly from private homes. Over the course of a few years, that millions of guns flowing into the criminal world, of which, the damage is incalculable.
The really sick part is that safe storage laws are seen as an infringement of rights. Even in cases in which someone is injured or killed with a gun that was accessible to kids, the gun-rights fanatics insist charges are inappropriate. When's someone's kid is killed the parent gun owner has suffered enough, they say.
No training requirements, no storage laws, anything goes with these guys. That's why I blame them for the rampant and unnecessary gun violence in the country.
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Why would the ad include things that aren't true? Just because you believe that a gun is more dangerous to the owner doesn't make it so.
ReplyDeleteWe all agreed on that. It was just a question of how much. Don't you remember all our discussions about Kellerman's study?
DeleteYou mean the discussion where we showed that Kellermann produced a bogus study? Yes, I recall that.
DeleteWell, you SAID that, if that's what you mean. And in the end your conclusion was that Kellerman's percentage was wrong and that it should be a lower one. As I said, it was never a question of whether or not guns in the home are a bad idea, it was a question of how bad they are.
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