CNN’s Zahn and Her Guests Use Death of Ohio Woman to Target Male Gun Owners

NewsBusters ^ | 6/27/2007 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

The search for missing pregnant Ohio woman Jessie Davis and the ongoing investigation into her murder has been all the rage recently on the twenty-four hour news networks, only surpassed by a few "choice" stories such as the coverage of the imprisonment of Paris Hilton. Not surprisingly, one network, CNN, used the murder of this young woman to forward a left-wing agenda. Two guests on Monday's "Paula Zahn Now" program warned that a "big risk factor" or a "big red flag" in cases of domestic violence and/or homicide against pregnant woman are "men who are gun owners."

Host Paula Zahn had three women guests on to discuss the question, "What is it about pregnancy that seems to increase a woman's risk of being killed by her partner?" The first guest to speak, Dr. Gail Saltz of New York Presbyterian Hospital, focused on the increased stresses on a woman and her "partner" during a pregnancy. The second guest, Jacquelyn Campbell, a nursing professor at John Hopkins University, was asked by Zahn if many of the murders of pregnant woman take place very late in the pregnancy. While answering, Campbell included in her list of risk factors "men who are gun owners as particularly dangerous in these cases."

The third guest, Pat Brown, went even further in demonizing male gun owners, even male owners of weapons of any kind. Zahn asked her, "are most of these crimes in some way linked to premeditation? Got to go out and buy a gun if you don't have one already." Brown's answer:

Well, I would say not necessarily, in the way we would think. I mean, most psychopaths, when they are manipulating people, they are always premeditating what they like and what they don't like. So, it is not something they necessarily do way ahead of time. But, before that actual event happens, they have probably gone through it in their minds. In other words, you don't do something you have never thought about. But psychopaths are also fascinated by weapons. I mean, they like the power and control that come with weapons. So, if you are hooking up with a guy who is really into a big gun collection or really into those ninja knives, it's a big red flag. He is not doing yoga, you know? (LAUGHTER) This is a guy who is not looking for the peaceful way out. He's looking for the power and control he gets. And, if he loses it with you and he loses it in his life, he may just eliminate you to get that power and control back.

So, "having a big gun collection" or being "really into those ninja knives" is a "red flag" or indication that a man is a psychopath? This is left-wing psychobabble. As a memorable quote from a movie released several years ago indicated, "you should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity."

[MRC intern Michael Lanza assisted in the research for this article.]

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[Kenton]

No doubt these are also the people who will claim that only police should have guns, even though the murderer was a cop.

[CindyDawg]

Did he shoot her? I hadn’t heard that but hey I’m all for disarming the police. What do they need guns for, anyway.

[KarlInOhio]

Gun owner? Isn't the primary suspect who has been arrested a POLICE OFFICER? Aren't we told that only the State can be trusted with weapons and that civilians should only have a cell phone for defense? Nothing like ignoring a few facts in a case.

[CindyDawg]

I think more to the point they should be asking ,”Why aren’t more pregnant women armed”?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Zahn’s contract will not be renewed. She should be gone by fall.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Hello he was a cop.

Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[EEDUDE]

I had an acquaintance who was shot and killed by his wife.

She wasn’t pregnant though!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I think more to the point they should be asking ,”Why aren’t more pregnant women armed”?

Two gallons of raging hormones and you want to put a gun in her hands? (just kidding!)

Regards,
GtG

[Plains Drifter]

Every year the “National Safety Council” publishes a book listing the leading causes of accidental death and homicide who, how, when and how old. You can buy this book over the internet. The book costs about $40 the last time I bought one. The last 25 years the statistics on weapons of choice for domestic violence have not changed. Guns rank about fourth. Ahead of guns are the family’s kitchen knives, baseball bats and manual strangulation. Interesting for women one of their favorite weapons is the family car, great equalizer. It’s interesting all of these libs that want to take your guns away have special status to have weapons of their own or they live in guarded gated communities that you and I could not afford to live in. If you look at statistics since it’s the women who seem to be complaining here they seem to be incapable of making intelligent choices about life partners. Does anyone recently come to mind about a life partner they chose?

[Red6]

CNN’s Zahn and Her Guests ask if watching CNN makes viewers ignorant liberals with drool running down the side of their face?

I forget, was this an excerpt from the “View” or from a second rate biased cable news channel?

[goldstategop]

Like that ass Matthew Westerhold of the Sandusky Register who published a list of local gun owners. The MSM's hostility to law-abiding gun owners is a matter of record. Why, if people defend themselves, they are eevil. There's no mention of what the armed bad guys do to defenseless unarmed good people. MOLON LABE!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[ozzymandus]

Ever shoot one of those little Steyr carbines? They kick like hell.

[driftdiver]

“Hello he was a cop.”

He was a cop who previously allowed a convicted felon to have access to his service weapon. He shouldn’t have been a cop and should have spent time in jail.

[txroadhawg]

So, if you are hooking up with a guy who is really into a big gun collection or really into those ninja knives, it’s a big red flag.

Yep, you’ll always be safe with this man near by!

[RockinRight]

"big risk factor" or a "big red flag" in cases of domestic violence and/or homicide against pregnant woman are "men who are gun owners fathering children with multiple women while married and got fired from their cop job for having relationships with murderers."

Fixed it.

[DuncanWaring]

Is the woman in the picture “Betty”?

[Red6]

Why bother using facts? It’s much better to reason with emotions. I’m surprised they didn’t have Michael Moore and Rosie on the show and film excerpts from Bowling from Columbine. You know, the typical CNN game, lets discuss a tiopic using two liberals and a moderator.

[Dick Bachert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg9q9sxJFnA

[Pyro7480]

Nope, I’ve never shot one of those. A coworker sent me the link to the website it’s from today, so I thought it might be appropriate to use. What model Steyr is it?