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Making up "Facts" Feeds the Gun Grabbers
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Making up "Facts" Feeds the Gun Grabbers News Commentary by Prudence Paise - Sierra Times Ranch Hand 11.09.01
I just read an interesting article by Karen Brock in the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Rather than get into her specious arguments and questionable statistics, which are given without any verifiable source, my attention for this response is the premise of her article:"In its efforts to sell handguns to women, the gun industry -- from pro-gun magazines to the gun store counter -- is quick to cite the violent scenarios that women are led to fear most: the stranger who attacks and mugs in a dark alley or who breaks into a woman's home to rape and kill."I would like to know where Ms. Brock received this information. Certainly not from any of the hundreds of firearms salesmen with whom I have spoken over the last 20 years. From gun show to gun store, never once has a salesperson tried to utilize that type of scare tactic as a method of getting me to buy a handgun. On the contrary, if a threat to my person was mentioned at all, what was mentioned was that the majority of violent crimes against women are committed by a person she knows.Later in the article, Ms Brock asks: "So why do women generally believe they are more likely to be targeted by strangers than those they know best?" She goes on to blame the NRA and the firearms industry. But in reality, the answer is: "They don't." While it would irresponsible of me to say that no woman would believe such pap, I would venture to say that the kind of woman who would is not the type of woman to be found in a gun store or reading NRA literature.Ms. Brock talks about the fear mongers, while sowing the seeds of fear: "One statistic tells the tale: In 1999, for each instance in which a woman used a handgun in a justifiable homicide, 120 women were murdered with handguns." (Again, she cites no source for this "statistic.") She brings out the worst possible scenario while ignoring the fact that thousands of women each year prevent an assault on themselves by simply brandishing a firearm.To be blunt: Ms. Brock is just another silly woman spewing out the nonsense of the anti-gun lobby. She needs fifty cents to buy a twenty-five cent clue. The only certainty is that she won't be buying that clue in a gun store. http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/nov/09/arpp110901.htm
I just read an interesting article by Karen Brock in the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. Rather than get into her specious arguments and questionable statistics, which are given without any verifiable source, my attention for this response is the premise of her article:"In its efforts to sell handguns to women, the gun industry -- from pro-gun magazines to the gun store counter -- is quick to cite the violent scenarios that women are led to fear most: the stranger who attacks and mugs in a dark alley or who breaks into a woman's home to rape and kill."I would like to know where Ms. Brock received this information. Certainly not from any of the hundreds of firearms salesmen with whom I have spoken over the last 20 years. From gun show to gun store, never once has a salesperson tried to utilize that type of scare tactic as a method of getting me to buy a handgun. On the contrary, if a threat to my person was mentioned at all, what was mentioned was that the majority of violent crimes against women are committed by a person she knows.Later in the article, Ms Brock asks: "So why do women generally believe they are more likely to be targeted by strangers than those they know best?" She goes on to blame the NRA and the firearms industry. But in reality, the answer is: "They don't." While it would irresponsible of me to say that no woman would believe such pap, I would venture to say that the kind of woman who would is not the type of woman to be found in a gun store or reading NRA literature.Ms. Brock talks about the fear mongers, while sowing the seeds of fear: "One statistic tells the tale: In 1999, for each instance in which a woman used a handgun in a justifiable homicide, 120 women were murdered with handguns." (Again, she cites no source for this "statistic.") She brings out the worst possible scenario while ignoring the fact that thousands of women each year prevent an assault on themselves by simply brandishing a firearm.To be blunt: Ms. Brock is just another silly woman spewing out the nonsense of the anti-gun lobby. She needs fifty cents to buy a twenty-five cent clue. The only certainty is that she won't be buying that clue in a gun store. http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/nov/09/arpp110901.htm
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