Posted on 01/09/2016 7:01:04 AM PST by rktman
A Baltimore Sun columnist wrote in a Thursday op-ed that citizens who legally own firearms are more frightening than the criminals who use the weapons on the rough streets of her hometown.
Tricia Bishop, deputy editorial page editor for the Baltimore paper, explained how billboards advertisements for guns and everyday Americans carrying them around made her sick.
"I'm less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore... than I am by those permitted gun owners," Bishop said.
She says this because she believes as a middle-class white woman, she's shielded from her city's criminal element but, in her opinion, she's not protected from her neighbors' legally-purchased weapons.
"I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by 'the game,'" she wrote. "But I don't know where the legal gun owners are or how to ensure that their children, no matter how well versed in respecting firearms, won't one day introduce that weapon to my daughter."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Yeah, but she gets the typical lib-pass.
To think she controls the news
Her idiocy, on the other hand ...
What.a.fag...
any chance this idiot ever thought that she got to this age without any of her neighbors shooting her might indicate they’re no actual threat?
She’s a moron....
What about poor people who WERE born white? Her statement is as elitist and racist as it gets.
This writer just piles stupid upon stupid, especially the “white privilege” claim. She’ll be lucky if BLM doesn’t besiege the Sun with calls for her resignation for disrespecting the ‘hood.
What??? You are willing to let your child face such dangerous situations every day? What kind of mother are you?
I gather this sheltered bleeding heart does not know bus routes connect the downtown to the suburbs
This kind of thinking is why women weren't shouldn't be allowed to vote.
In the comments section of The Sun it shows that she was arrested for drunken driving.
Lots of comments about that-—pretty funny.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-bishop-0108-20160107-story.html
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We were warned 155 years ago about citizens` ignorance of guns and its consequences:
“The military strength of our Government was
designed by its founders to rest on the militia
of the States, which should comprise the whole
body of citizens between eighteen and forty-five
years of age. For many years after the
Revolutionary War, this theory was carried out,
and it Was reinforced considerably by the war
of 1812:. But a long peace and universal prosperity made
the militia by degrees unpopular,and the laws of the States were modified so as to release the-Citizens from their obligations to maintain a vigorous military organization.
With the exception of a small number of volunteer
companies in the cities, the whole system
fell into disuse. Young men were discouraged
from joining even those on account of
the alleged “waste of money and risk of their
morals.” So completely had the Military spirit
died out in the other Northern States, that arms
are not even found in our houses, and a whole
generation has grown up which is ignorant of
their use.”
The Plattsburgh Daily Republican oct (20th?) 1861
If she were robbed or raped she would say that she deserved it due to her white privilege.
Most of the people that I know are trained in gun safety through Boy Scouts, NRA at High school Military or other safety program. If I remember correctly 59 percents form this woman’s area had not one vote for Romney. This is a case of either fraud or complete brainwashing.
Frankly, I don’t care what happens to her.
"Could I reserve an apartment in the high shooting neighborhood, please?"
Stupidity of liberals knows no bounds. They have absolutely zero understanding of cause and effect. Liberal policies --> Welfare --> Destruction of black and poor families --> No fathers --> Multiple generations of unemployable, depraved young men with no sense of right and wrong --> High murder rates. The shootings in these neighborhoods weren't "reserved" for them; they are the logical outcome of six decades of liberal do-gooderism.
Logic and reason are often incompatible with belief ... and secular religious dogma is no different.
The pen being mightier than the sword, I’m more afraid of idiots like this woman than I am of illegal gun owners. They want to take my stuff. She wants to take my freedom.
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