Posted on 01/17/2015 7:04:58 AM PST by rktman
On January 14, Politico Magazine (PM) ran a story suggesting the claim that guns are used for defense purposes more often than ill-intent is wrong, and the whole idea behind “defensive gun ownership” is a “tragic myth.”
PM defined the “tragic myth” as the belief “that millions of gun owners successfully use their firearms to defend themselves and their families from criminals.” They pointed to the dearth of academic support for defensive gun uses (DGUs) in “public health literature” and listed three instances in which a homeowner fired a gun in what they thought was a self-defense situation, but which later turned out otherwise. The gunshot wound was fatal in one of the three incidents.
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And yet one Minnesota liberal was pro Second Amendment as the final “protection against an arbitrary and tyrannical government”. But that was 1960 (Hubert Humphrey).
The gun control freaks just never give up no matter how many facts are laid right under their noses. They are blind to facts and can only see the hyperbole.
They seem to be under the impression that if enough liberal outlets tell the same old tired lies then regular neutral people who don’t care one way or the other will be swayed.
Unfortunately this means it’s our job to call them out on it every time just so that kind of public brainwashing does not happen.
The leftists who churn out “public health literature” have chosen to make gun ownership a health risk. Therefore, “public health literature” ignores or fakes the data which shows good outcomes in defensive firearms use.
‘“defensive gun ownership” is a “tragic myth.”’
Hmmmm. Well they do make an interesting point.
Maybe they are making the counter argument - that “gun ownership” should be used for “offensive measures.”
Could that be what they are proposing? Are they saying that we should be using them in planned out and strategic ways? Interesting.
“Our” medical community doing research on gun violence has long been VERY DANGEROUS to our country. They are so arrogant in their ignorance that they just can’t imagine that they don’t understand.
Hmmmmmmm, during my adult life (some 40 years thus far) I (or my spouse)have displayed a firearm on four(4) occasions to dissuade an individual with violent criminal intent towards our family or an innocent third party in our presence. That stat would translate to approximately 22 MILLION!!!!! defensive displays of a firearm per year were my family ‘average’. This does not count two occasions on which I bluffed before the days of routine CC. Sadly, for many years we were well above ‘average’ because being saddled with the liberal disorder I lived in a sketchy neighborhood. Of course the true average is about 2 - 3 million incidents per year almost none of which (like all of mine) come to the attention of either cops or media BECAUSE NO SHOTS WERE FIRED and also because bringing the cops into such a situation is useless (more on that in a moment or even dangerous.
Interactions with cops- enough to hold them in utter contempt.
1) Call cops to 911 a shooting at an rental house down the block. Cops take 40 minutes to arrive. While waiting I note the individual who is cleaning up the shooter’s brass. When cops arrive i attempt to approach them with the data. Detective draws down and threatens me. Threatens me with immediate arrest when I try to explain.
2) Call cops to report serious gang activity on the block. Watch cop car arrive (from from window), gangbangers surround car and dare cops to get out. Cops turn tail & leave. Call 911 again. Cops come straight to my door- thus fingering me to the bad guys. Advice from cops? Move!!! Car window got shot out that night. Found later than the 911 calls and all cop records of visits to mt abode had dissapeared.
3) Auto incident a block from the house. Clear fault of the guy driving drunk in his boss’s panel van. Boss turned out to be a city councilman. My wife got the ticket. I got threatened with immediate arrest for daring to dispute. Only possible resort- imprecatory Prayer. Within two weeks of steady Petition the Councilman received severe burns when the deep fat fryer at his chicken joint had a mishap. Prayer Answered.
4) Angry ‘neighbor’ threatens violence because I dared tell him that his pitbull which attacked my wife in our yard needed to be leashed 24 X 7 in the future. Call cops. Their response- move. Only possible resort- imprecatory Prayer. Within two weeks of steady Petition the ‘neighbor’ collapsed with a severe stroke. Prayer Answered.
Best way to avoid trouble- avoid sketchy people and places. Live where the demographics aren’t sketchy. CC and learn to do so effectively.
All of this blather is about control of behavior to instill allegiance to the state order.
They don’t really know how to brainwash Americans because we are skeptical towards the elite. Mass murder comes to mind.
28. Pinal County, AZ – 43.6%
Surprised we're that so on the list - given that the Federal Government facilitates the arming of the drug gangs here.
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