Supporters Of More Government Power Push For Gun Control
By Bob Owens
The ever hysterical inside-the-Beltway Washington Post editorialist E.J. Dionne whined shrilly last week about his imagined right to live in a society “free from guns.”
Dionne would first set his sights on outlawing handguns, by conspiring with his peers to manufacture the fiction that handguns are bad:
“We need to build a social movement devoted to the simple proposition that owning handguns makes us less safe, not more,” he told me. “The evidence is overwhelming that having a gun in your home increases the risks of suicide, domestic violence and fatal accidents, and yet the No. 1 reason given for gun purchases is ‘personal safety.’ We need a public-health campaign on the dangers of gun ownership, similar to the successful efforts against smoking and drunk driving.”
Dionne conveniently forgets to mention that as handgun ownership has spread to unprecedented levels, across all social strata, and across minority groups, armed violence from criminals has dropped.
He declines to mention that close to 12 million licensed concealed carriers bring their handguns to a wider number of locations every day, and that that number number that has more than doubled since 2007. He hides the fact that the number of suicides …read more
Source:: Bearing Arms
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