riverrat10k
Regular Member
http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinio...cle_5cca12b9-aee4-587d-b357-2882150c55c3.html
"Unfortunately, Baker then dangles the straw man argument that “the numbers appear to contradict a long-running popular narrative that more guns cause more crime.”The problem is that gun violence prevention advocates in Virginia like me have never suggested any such thing. " Untrue, she has.
She herself shifts the arguement made in last weeks article to 'gun deaths" while the article spoke of "gun crime".
The Nov. 24 article blows big holes in the anti's arguement that "more guns equal more crime". As that article stated, gun sales are through the roof, but gun crime is down. So she changes the narrative.
She blames "weak gun laws" on "(throwing) her own daughter into harms way." No mention that on a campus with thousands of people, only a very few LEO's were equipped to stop Cho's threat. No mention that Va. Tech was a "Gun Free Zone". Gee, Lori, how did the crime ever happen? There was a POLICY against it! In fact multiple laws against it!
The RTD gave Lori her space, but also ran an editorial box in the print edition recapping the article from Nov. 24; I believe to show her inconsistencies and false arguements she made about the article.
Question is, why does anyone listen to a person from such a small, radical, minority group?
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when you might have to back up your actions with your life."
---R. A. Heinlein
"Unfortunately, Baker then dangles the straw man argument that “the numbers appear to contradict a long-running popular narrative that more guns cause more crime.”The problem is that gun violence prevention advocates in Virginia like me have never suggested any such thing. " Untrue, she has.
She herself shifts the arguement made in last weeks article to 'gun deaths" while the article spoke of "gun crime".
The Nov. 24 article blows big holes in the anti's arguement that "more guns equal more crime". As that article stated, gun sales are through the roof, but gun crime is down. So she changes the narrative.
She blames "weak gun laws" on "(throwing) her own daughter into harms way." No mention that on a campus with thousands of people, only a very few LEO's were equipped to stop Cho's threat. No mention that Va. Tech was a "Gun Free Zone". Gee, Lori, how did the crime ever happen? There was a POLICY against it! In fact multiple laws against it!
The RTD gave Lori her space, but also ran an editorial box in the print edition recapping the article from Nov. 24; I believe to show her inconsistencies and false arguements she made about the article.
Question is, why does anyone listen to a person from such a small, radical, minority group?
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when you might have to back up your actions with your life."
---R. A. Heinlein
Last edited by a moderator: