Saturday, September 28, 2013
Colion Noir, NRA Con-Man, Strikes Again
First of all, the Mother's Day Shooting in New Orleans did make the news. The suggestion that gun control advocates were silent about it is not true. In fact, we had quite a lively discussion about it ourselves.
Shootings like the one in New Orleans, in which 19 people were hit, are not epidemic. They are as rare as the other mass shootings in which multiple people are killed or wounded. But that doesn't stop Mr. Noir from saying so, from lumping the mass shooting in NOLA with the every day gun violence in Chicago. It really belongs with the other mass shootings.
The accusation that no one is talking about how to improve ghetto conditions and that we're only interested in CONTROL is ridiculous. But, Colion says this in his slick, fast-talking way as if it's a given. It's not.
Much of his pitch is based on the false foundation that we want gun control AS OPPOSED TO all the other efforts that are called for. The truth is, all the other efforts are already operative. Lots of resources are being invested in education, job creation, drug programs, etc. Mr. Slick is pretending it's an either/or situation. It's not.
The "here's gunny" graphic is cute. But the lie behind it is not. It says gun control people believe an inanimate object talks to ghetto kids telling them to commit violence. This is the "blame the gun" lie, which when it comes to presentation, Colion Noir has no peer.
The truth is, gun control folks, like all thinking people, understand that GUN AVAILABILITY is the problem. Gun availability to unfit and dangerous people. And blame for this can be placed squarely at the feet of the gun-rights advocates like Noir. They fight for lax gun laws that guarantee the tremendous gun flow from lawful gun ownership to criminal possession. And the gun manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank.
Gun flow into the criminal world happens in four ways, which we've discussed at great length.
To sum up, Colion Noir is somewhat convincing but rather superficial con-man. If he had real substance to his arguments he wouldn't have to resort to lies like the gun control folks "blame the gun," and lies like the gun control folks "aren't concerned about ghetto violence."
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Well, Mikeb, I can't accuse you of never telling the truth. At least you post his videos now and then. Your commentary completely misses the mark, though.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, gun control isn't even about control. It's about the illusion of control. It's about security theater and looking busy. It's the same kind of thing we saw in the eighties with mandatory sentencing for drug possession--a knee jerk response to make some people feel safer. Of course, the problems that such a policy created are mostly invisible or can be stretched out so long that we don't have to notice them.
The real solution is drug law reform and a cultural reform in the inner cities.
But, don't the obvious inconsistencies in his talk bother you? For example, one that I forgot to mention in my post is the huge difference between a shooting in which 17 are wounded and none die and one in which 26 are shot dead including all those kids. Colion pretended that it's a big deal that the one received so much more attention than the other, but what could make more sense than that given the immense difference between the two?
DeleteCan you agree with me about that, Greg, or would that be expecting too much.
Mikeb, someone who plays as fast and loose with facts as you shouldn't go picking at nits. The incident in New Orleans and the one in Chicago got little attention, especially in comparison to Sandy Hook and the Navy Yard. Just because we talked about all of those here doesn't mean that the wide world of the media dealt with them equally.
DeleteHis point was that it was easier to turn Sandy Hook into a bumper sticker. That's true. Your side is smarting because your efforts were all for naught.
They didn't merit equal treatment, Greg. That's why.
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