{"id":62469,"date":"2015-10-27T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62469"},"modified":"2015-10-26T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:46:36","slug":"62469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62469","title":{"rendered":"New York Times & The Concealed-Carry Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> editorial board wades clumsily into the concealed carry discussion yesterday with a piece that leans heavily on supposition;<\/p>\n

The tally by the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group, is necessarily incomplete because the gun lobby has been so successful in persuading gullible state and national legislators that concealed carry is essential to public safety, thus blocking the extensive data collection that should be mandatory for an obvious and severe public health problem. For that reason, the center has been forced to rely largely on news accounts and limited data in 38 states and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n

More complete research, unimpeded by the gun lobby, would undoubtedly uncover a higher death toll. But this truly vital information is kept largely from the public. A Gallup poll this month found 56 percent of Americans said the nation would be safer if more people carried concealed weapons.<\/p>\n

Clearly, concealed carry does not transform ordinary citizens into superheroes. Rather, it compounds the risks to innocent lives, particularly as state legislatures, bowing to the gun lobby, invite more citizens to venture out na\u00efvely with firearms in more and more public places, including restaurants, churches and schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one wants to be a superhero, well, except the New York Times editorial board maybe, but many Americans do want to be safe when they leave their homes, you know, to live their lives. I suspect that some of the members of the New York Times editorial board take advantage of concealed carry laws in some shape or form.<\/p>\n

No statistical evidence exists, so the New York Times just assumes that their suppositions are correct.<\/p>\n

But, we here at This Ain’t Hell<\/strong> have been keeping a daily tally of citizens who protect themselves, their property and their families with their legally-owned guns with our “Feel Good” stories. We’ve been writing about these stories first thing every morning for the past three years. Usually there is more than one, but, just to keep my own poll away from being guess work, I’ll say that at least once a day, there’s a legal gun owner using his legal gun for protection. That’s more than one thousand and ninety five times. One thousand and ninety five Americans who are alive, who might not be so if the anti-gun lobby and the New York Times editorial board had their way.<\/p>\n

How about that poor lady a few weeks ago who waited for more than an hour for the police (because of a 9-1-1 dispatcher, apparently) until she shot her assailant at the very last minute. Would the New York Times like to throw her on their gun control pyre? Then there was the couple that was walking back to their car from a restaurant when an armed gunman tried to rob them, and the gentleman used his concealed firearm to end the threat against his wife. The father and son who were threatened at a Craig’s List solicitation gone wrong and had to ventilate the pair of armed thugs. A woman in Tulsa took a career criminal off of the street when she shot Bruce (not-so) Jolly as he tried to force his way into her home. The fellow with a legally concealed weapon who took down a bank robber a few weeks ago. The list is endless, so I wont belabor the point.<\/p>\n

Are all gun owners acting responsibly all of the time? Nope. But, that comes with education and training – and by not shaming gun owners into the shadows with phony statistics and creepy little opinion pieces about whiny “modern men” in skinny jeans who don’t own guns.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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