{"id":57680,"date":"2015-01-14T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57680"},"modified":"2015-01-14T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:03:31","slug":"francis-wilkinson-gun-owners-put-children-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57680","title":{"rendered":"Francis Wilkinson; gun owners put children at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Francis Wilkinson person wrote in Bloomberg News<\/a> that, even though there are “many” responsible gun owners, others are not and don’t keep guns out of the hands of children. Of course, he needs some shocking statistics;<\/p>\n

According to Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America (both supported by Michael Bloomberg, the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News), from December 2012 to December 2013, at least 100 children died in unintentional shootings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll concede that even one is too many, but seeings how there are an estimated two hundred and seventy million guns in the hands of private legal owners, 100 would seem a little low, in fact, it would make most Americans proud of their countrymen for keeping the number so low. But, you know, given his sources for that 100 children, I’d have to find another set of numbers before I’d believe it.<\/p>\n

Wilkinson clearly has an axe to grind. Looking at his body of work at Bloomberg<\/a>, he’s one of those guilt-ridden liberals who hate everything about America, particularly conservative America. I even found an article he wrote at Huffington Post where he claims that “Guns are for White People<\/a>” and his conclusion arising from buying gun magazines. Despite the fact that with 270 million guns out there, I’m sure there a black person or two who legally own firearms – in fact I know a couple of them.<\/p>\n

So he clearly has a blind spot when it comes to guns and the second amendment. He continues with his latest rant and guns within reach of a statistically miniscule number of children and he characteristically blames the NRA.<\/p>\n

While kids have been killing themselves and others, the gun movement has been working to expand gun culture in public schools. The National Rifle Association has long had its Eddie Eagle program, educating the very young in gun safety (and, not incidentally, gun familiarity). After the Newtown massacre, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre characteristically demanded guns in schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that! Someone who voluntarily teaches gun safety in schools at no cost to the taxpayers. That’s outrageous! Oh, by the way, Mr. Wilkinson, even though the NRA wants more guns in school, they don’t advocate leaving the guns laying around within reach of the students – ideally, those guns in schools would be in the possession of legally-licensed and trained professionals. Do you even know any? <\/p>\n

LaPierre is a cheerleader for dystopia because scaring people out of their wits is the essence of his job. Yet the armies of Adam-Lanza-like zombie killers have failed to materialize. Instead, we have only a relentless series of stupid gun deaths, many due to people who were too reckless to be responsible gun owners in the first place. The federal government has no comprehensive tally. But if you follow Twitter feeds such as that of Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, you can watch the fatalities mount.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, if you followed the Twitter feed of This Ain’t Hell, for more than three years we’ve published, nearly daily, local new articles about legal gun owners who have protected their children and themselves from criminals with gun. That’s more than a thousand, and it probably just scratches the surface of the number of those types of incidents – because we depend on local news producers to think the story is important enough to publish. More than a thousand stories about armed citizens doing for themselves what the government can’t do for them. Good guys with guns.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wilkinson, you should go pound sand, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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