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.

[Neoliberalnot]

I was just wondering if the future mother-in-law bears any responsibility for the death of Jenny's brother??

[JillValentine]

I spend a considerable amount of computer time in my underwear.

(sorry, no pictures)

[holymoly]

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.

Anther vindictive person, who wants to punish every gun owner for the actions of a single individual.

[Gondring]

I guess that since the colonists/early Americans owned cannons but not 9 mm handguns, she wouldn't have a problem with me getting a cannon, eh?

[DugwayDuke]

"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."

Her point was that the laws of the US should ban private gun ownership since no law can guarantee that some one, some where, some time, won't kill some one with a gun. Of course, the same logic would lead to banning anything, anywhere, any time that anyone could use to kill some one. However, if you pointed that out to her, she would say that guns are different from all the other things that could be used to kill someone because guns are 'different'.

[Hot Tabasco]

Wasn't there a Million Mom Marcher who shot and killed an innocent man over the past year or so?

[Graybeard58]

I may start wearing a tux when I am at Free Republic, so this woman will like me better.

Nah, I probably won't do that.

[RogueIsland]

The gun control lobby, led by the Brady Campaign, has worked passionately to make guns safer and to regulate their sales.

No, they've worked passionately to outlaw guns and deprive me of my Constitutional rights under the Second Amendment, you dishonest twit.

[Hardastarboard]

Maybe Ms. Price needs to understand that those of us who choose to own guns, as is our natural born right, US CONSTITUTION OR NOT (every living creature has a right to defend itself by the best means possible) are SICK to death of being called names and villified by those who would take away our rights. Maybe the hatred and anger she is feeling are just being reflected back to her. The anti-gun Left (which is pretty much ALL of the Left), surely can dish out that hatred. They just can't take it when it's sent back to them.

As far as paranoia, sure, I'm paranoid. History has given me plenty of reasons to be. RJ Rummel of the University of Hawaii claims that as many as 300 million people have been murdered by governments in the course of history. I'm inclined to believe him.

Paranoid? No. Realistic? Yes.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

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

Here's a statistic that deserves citing: the research program to which Ms Price belongs has 38 members- of which 37 are women (or should that be, 'womyn.')

What was that about misogyny, Jen?

[GOP_Raider]

'A SPINELESS retard with the character of pond scum." A "whacko," "greedy un-American idiot," "fascist," "whining liberal"..."nasty little gun grabber."..."half-drunk", "high on crack", "pregnant out of wedlock", "mouth breathing window licker". There, that should be a 15 yard penalty for piling on.

[ThreePuttinDude]

I spend a considerable amount of computer time in my underwear.

(sorry, no pictures)
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That's just not fair, dang

[an amused spectator]

I can tell you why the right to carry a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun with a 10-shot clip is not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment

Oh, really, Jenny? Oh, really?

Sounds like Jenny and her brother's fiancee's mother have similar delusional problems - their tiny little minds just can't grasp the fact that other people should be able to live their lives without "the hand of control" reaching in.

One used a gun, the other uses a barrel of ink and a Leftist soapbox...

[stopsign]

David and his fiancee were shot and killed by the fiancee's mother.

If David and/or his fiancee had a gun this might have been different.

I went on to argue for a national ban on handguns.

I just almost called you a bad name... : ) <<< me

[Leisler]

From the Washington Post.
By Jenny Price

Sunday, December 25, 2005; Page B07

Five years ago an elderly Los Angeles woman who had agreed to move out of her daughter's apartment bought a handgun. She cleared the background check, passed the safety test and practiced on targets at the local shooting range. Then she shot and killed her daughter and her daughter's fiance -- my brother David.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122301465.html

So the double murder was in 2000, or maybe 1999. In LA. This today's story she, Price, said the story made the Daily News too. Is or was there a Daily News in LA? I am only aware of the New York Daily News.

The ring tightens. David Price?

[an amused spectator]

I was just wondering if the future mother-in-law bears any responsibility for the death of Jenny's brother??

Jenny wants the gun imprisoned for life. ;-)

[RavenATB]

Obviously, her brother would be alive had he just had the good sense to live in Washington DC, where guns are banned, as she wishes.

[RavenATB]

I wonder if she has ever considered why it is that the most violent places in the United States are those places where her Liberal point of view is most often supported in the polls...the "Blue" states.

[dirtboy]

because most murderers use legally purchased handguns and know how to operate them safely.

I figured this had to be weasel-worded. From John Lott:

Question: Your argument about criminals and deterrence doesn't tell the whole story. Don't statistics show that most people are killed by someone they know?

Lott: You are referring to the often-cited statistic that 58 percent of murder victims are killed by either relatives or acquaintances. However, what most people don't understand is that this "acquaintance murder" number also includes gang members killing other gang members, drug buyers killing drug pushers, cabdrivers killed by customers they picked up for the first time, prostitutes and their clients, and so on. "Acquaintance" covers a wide range of relationships. The vast majority of murders are not committed by previously law-abiding citizens. Ninety percent of adult murderers have had criminal records as adults.

Lott sinks another gun-grabber talking point. Ninety percent of adult murderers have had criminal records as adults. Which means the felons among them cannot legally own a weapon. Whether or not the guns were legally purchased is immaterial.

What this calls for is not to ban handguns, but to lock up felons for a much longer time - especially violent ones.