Cleveland Columnist Tries Emotional Blackmail To Push Gun Control

By Cam Edwards

It’s the laziest gun control argument there is; if you don’t support restricting the right to keep and bear arms, you must be okay with murder. It’s an intellectually dishonest and emotionally manipulative position, and it’s embraced by Cleveland Plain-Dealer columnist Brent Larkin in a new op/ed entitled, “Rejecting gun control is akin to condemning more kids to die” that argues opponents of gun control just don’t care much about human life.

Every member of Congress and of the Ohio legislature who opposes the modest notion of universal background checks should be locked in a room with their children and/or grandchildren and forced to repeatedly watch the recent advertisement produced for Sandy Hook Promise, the group designed to promote gun safety around children.

I think Brent Larkin should be locked in a room with the FBI crime stats for Colorado since 2013, when the state instituted “universal background checks” and has seen violent crime increase by 25% in the ensuing years. After he’s studied the numbers, we can pass him the crime stats for Washington State, which also put a universal background check law on the books several years ago and has seen …Read the Rest

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