{"id":2050,"date":"2012-12-21T13:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2012-12-21T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:15:04","slug":"understanding-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/understanding-both-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"UNDERSTANDING BOTH SIDES"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cgun control\u201d debate has, from its beginning, been a battle fueled by emotion and symbolism on the banning side, and by logic and common sense on the side of the responsible gun owners.\u00a0 The fires of emotion flare brightly, but they burn down with time, particularly when dampened by logical public discourse.<\/p>\n

I suspect this is why POTUS is moving so quickly on his long-promised gun banning legislation, which he has said he wants to see on his desk by sometime next month. It is why he appointed to lead a supposedly impartial fact-finding commission none other than long-time gun ban advocate Joe Biden, which is rather like appointing the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church as chair of a committee to study gay rights.<\/p>\n

Leading the charge are \u201cjournalists\u201d who\u2019ve abandoned all pretense to impartiality and fact finding. CNN has become \u201call gun control, all the time\u201d over the past week.\u00a0 One needs only witness Morgan\u2019s vicious personal attacks on such invited guests as Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, here.<\/p>\n

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I thought Larry stood up to him admirably, as Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation did earlier in the week, here.<\/p>\n

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We gun folks aren\u2019t the only ones who\u2019ve picked up on such empty, malevolent ranting on the \u201cban\u201d side versus the plain facts put forth by the \u201crights\u201d side. \u00a0\u00a0Peter Wehner at Commentary <\/i>nails it, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The general consensus of cops and criminologists is that a decade of the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban proved absolutely meaningless as a \u201ccrime-stopper.\u201d That law was in full sway when the Columbine High School massacre was perpetrated.\u00a0 Wasn\u2019t it Einstein who said that the definition of insanity was to keep doing something that didn\u2019t work?<\/p>\n

Some of us who actually work in the threat management\/public safety field have been recommending an armed security presence, including trained volunteers among the teaching and admin staff, since the 20th<\/sup> Century. Had that been in place in Sandy Hook, it would likely have prevented or at least mitigated the slaughter.\u00a0 The idea is now gaining traction in the wake of the Connecticut atrocity. We realize, as do the Washington Examiner <\/i><\/a>and the FBI, that in 2010 more murders were documentably committed by bare hands and stompings (745) than with rifles (358) of all types.<\/p>\n

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More timely reading to share in hopes of informing the public: http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/gun-control-its-the-software-stupid-not-the-hardware\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n

And this morning, Wayne Lapierre and his NRA team absolutely served up a healthy dose of reality at their press conference, available in transcript \u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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