Repeater
Regular Member
Insane reasoning from Hoplophobe NYT Gail Collins:
Arms and the Duck
Hay Gail, the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting.
Arms and the Duck
We had a shooting near the Empire State Building.
Nine passers-by were also wounded, ...
In 2008, Al Baker reported in The Times that the accuracy rate for New York City officers firing in the line of duty was 34 percent.
And these are people trained for this kind of crisis. The moral is that if a lunatic starts shooting, you will not be made safer if your fellow average citizens are carrying concealed weapons.
We are never going to have a sane national policy on guns until the gun advocates give up on the fantasy that the best protection against armed psychopaths bent on random violence is regular people with loaded pistols on their belts.
Is there anything the other side can concede in return?
Well, gun control advocates have to be careful not to say anything that demeans hunting.
Hay Gail, the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting.