Targeted by Gun Nuts

Los Angeles Times ^ | August 13, 2006 | Jenny Price

[n230099]

'A SPINELESS retard with the character of pond scum." A "whacko," "greedy un-American idiot," "fascist," "whining liberal" and "nasty little gun grabber."

Those are just some of the names I've been called since I published an Op-Ed article in the Washington Post to commemorate the fifth anniversary of my brother's death. After briefly stating that David and his fiancee were shot and killed by the fiancee's mother, who was angry that she had to move out of their L.A. apartment, I went on to argue for a national ban on handguns. The gun control lobby, led by the Brady Campaign, has worked passionately to make guns safer and to regulate their sales. But such measures, I contended, will never significantly reduce the annual U.S. death toll by firearms — 12,000 — because most murderers use legally purchased handguns and know how to operate them safely.

A couple of days later, while procrastinating on a writing assignment, I Googled my article. And so began my strange, weeklong trip through chat rooms on such pro-gun websites as keepandbeararms.com freerepublic.com, packing.org and rightnation.us.

[n230099]

Free Republic in Jenny's crosshairs!

[goldstategop]

If Jenny Price wants to be unarmed - that's her choice but she ought to keep her grubby hands off those of us who own guns!

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[MarineDad]

If she really wants to achieve peace and security, why doesn't she try forcing the rags to give up their suicide bombs by fiat?

That would prove to be very interesting...

[somemoreequalthanothers]

has worked passionately to make guns safer

Yep, safer guns, safer bullets, dynamite, etc. That's the ticket.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Guns don't kill sons, mother-in-laws do...eventually.

[Graybeard58]

Ping

you're being slimed by the LA Times.

[Graybeard58]

Ping.


You're being slimed by the LA Times.

[Alia]

This woman, author, is out of her mind. She cannot handle her own emotions and thereby seeks to punish EVERYONE and because she can't cope. It's the feminist mantra: If one woman is raped anywhere in the world, ALL WOMEN ARE BEING RAPED.

This woman needs to get a grip and recognize that she is NOT the center of the universe. The world and reality does not spin around her ego-centric sense of the world.

She seeks to punish everyone but only in order to deny coping with her own suffering. If she can be an activist, she thereby thinks it will lessen her suffering -- that she is DOING something.

She doesn't need to do anything other than properly grieve. IN solitude and with God. The longer she puts off her grieving, the worse her life will become. The pattern of denying loss and pain and suffering will continue to afflict itself upon her as a pattern for her to use at all times. In short form, she will become a raving shrew.

But she doesn't know this. She'll get some Cindy Sheehan fawning, and she'll, in her confused psyche, think she's doing right. She's not. Her loss is very personal. She's not treating this as a personal loss. She'll end up in a quagmire of her own creation, and rather than look at her denials, blame others.

[Mr. Mojo]

Free Republic in Jenny's crosshairs!

Plutarch, specifically. ....but mad_as_he$$ is mentioned as well.

[StACase]

I noticed that she mentioned statistics, but didn't cite any of them. I Wonder Why that is?

[Graybeard58]

Ping.

You are being slimed by the LATimes.

[JillValentine]

What a witch! We don't tell her how to live her life and what material objects she can or can't own. Why does she feel the need to tell everyone else how to live? That's the definition of a fascist. She deserves every bad name she's been called.

[Graybeard58]

Ping.


You're being slimed by the LA Times.

[goldstategop]

Twit. Murderers also acquire guns on the black market. There's not much an unarmed citizen can do in the face of a killer with a gun. Under the regime of unilateral disarmament in places like Washington DC, an unarmed citizen usually ends up in the morgue. Ms. Price could care less if innocent people are murdered so she can feel good about evil guns being banned.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)

[Congressman Billybob]

What is this woman's point? Does she contend that the gun laws of Los Angeles and California could or should have kept her brother's mother-in-law from getting the gun she used to kill her own daughter and son-in-law? If not, then all that followed in attacks on her was logical.

The L.A. Times is rife with politically biased articles. That's the starting point for research on any article which appears there, and seems to have holes in it. Because she wrote for a "newspaper" which publishes the likes of Robert Scheer, a detailed examination was appropriate.

I'm not a "gun nut." I'm just a follower of the Constitution, ALL of the Constitution. Unlike Jenny -- and many other self-appointed do-gooders -- I do not consign to the trash can any part of the Constitution which interferes with my chosen political outcome in any situation. And THAT is the great divide between the likes of Jenny and the likes of the more polite citizens of FR.

Jenny, I hope you Google this. Though I doubt you will understand it.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "The Democrat Party - 1828 - 2006 - R.I.P."

Please see my most recent new statement on running for Congress, here.

[Pharmboy]

Brilliant!

[Graybeard58]

But the paranoia and bone-chilling hatred that spew from such sites as packing.org and freerepublic.com make for an equally — and unusually — effective argument for a ban on handguns.

[Jameison]

" "You know," a friend tried to reassure me, "these are just guys who sit in front of their computers at 3 a.m. in their underwear."


Isn't that what that chap from CBS said too, when Dan Rather's Bush TANG memos were exposed to be fraudulent by conservative web sites?
And look what happened to Dan rather after that. :)
And when did you have to be in suit in order to think or write clearly?
Didn't Archimedes discover that, an object plunged into liquid becomes lighter by an amount equal to the weight of liquid it displaces, while he was all naked in a bath?

[ncountylee]

jjprice@ucla.edu

[Graybeard58]

Bump - all day long.

This woman has some hate issues of her own and the LAT is only to happy to help her with her agenda.