Posted September 20, 2017 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

This morning, I took a gander at what was floating around about guns and gun rights today, and I came across an opinion piece at the University of Houston’s school newspaper’s website that was…well, it had me laughing so loudly in the pre-dawn hours that no one in my house actually needed an alarm clock today.

Yes, this is a student publication, but this is something from an individual who will go on to make their living talking about things, and if this is any indication of the care this student, journalism junior Dana Jones, takes in getting facts right, she might need to retake a few classes.

The pandemic of guns in the United States is the problem of a nation, not a particular sex.

Oh, boy. We’ve only hit the first sentence and we can already see the tone.

First, a “pandemic” is an epidemic that has spread throughout the globe. Officially, there’s a set number of countries an epidemic needs to hit to be considered a pandemic, but you know what that number is? Hint: It’s greater than one.

In other words, there cannot be a “pandemic of guns” in the United States.

Second, there is no problem with guns. There are …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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