Eugene Robinson, you couldn't be more full of crap.
Eugene Robinson, a hapless writer for the Washington Post, enjoys making up unquoated statistics to barrage a reader with some false perception to further a 'cause'. In the latest debatchery Eugene quotes "30,000 lives (are lost) in the country each year", that is a 100% falsehood. There were less than 13,000 people murdered in 2011 in the United States, 8,500 of those were by firearms that is per the FBI Bureau of Statistics. Even the made up number by Eugene doesn't come in higher that auto fatalaties alone, in fact more people are killed with pharmaceutical drugs per year than firearms.
See this is the inherint problem when we let emotion find a place in decision making, and again why anti-gun nuts find it hard to get legislation passed. Because after all the 24/7 media plastering of crying people, pan shots of schools and "lock down" procedures, society realizes that these events are far and few between - that isolating laws about a particular one-off event isn't the best practice.
Millions of Americans, not a few thousand, have firearms and use them sensibly every day. Not injuring or harming a single soul on the planet. Out of 310 million people, less than 9,000 were murdered by a firearm, stastically it can hardly be measured. Now many would say that statistics is a cold and calice way to address the murder of a human being, and that is true, however it is also the argument anti-gun nuts make to create new laws to limit law biding citizens. The fact is a 30 round magazine over a 10 round magazine has little if any impact to death when a person wishes to murder in mass.
The attempted tie in by Eugene between terrorism and gun laws shows how out of touch and kool-aid drenched he truly is; in fact he makes a point that the terrorists could have used a AR15. True, but they didn't, why? Well the why is because it didn't make much sense when you're looking for impact. Remember, using a firearm such as an AR15 in a murder is generally a planned, methodical thing, not a happen stance ease-of-access event. That is what uber anti-gun nuts like Eugene don't comprehend because they're too overwhelmend with emotion - much like a child who screams for hours about a cut knee, not realizing the pain has subsided.
The scary part is that most anti-gun nut readers will feed off of Eugene's non-sense, in fact, that is what he hopes. Thankfully, time passes and reality sets in. People realize that limiting firearms to stop crazy people probably isn't the smartest thing - because it casts a huge net for relatively minimal success; the risk-reward isn't there. People like Eugene need to get a grip on their adolecent emotions and get in touch with reality. The world isn't as scary as they've painted it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-guns-and-terrorism-a-double-barreled-standard/2013/04/22/7247571c-ab84-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html?wprss=rss_blogsandcolumns&tid=pp_widget
See this is the inherint problem when we let emotion find a place in decision making, and again why anti-gun nuts find it hard to get legislation passed. Because after all the 24/7 media plastering of crying people, pan shots of schools and "lock down" procedures, society realizes that these events are far and few between - that isolating laws about a particular one-off event isn't the best practice.
Millions of Americans, not a few thousand, have firearms and use them sensibly every day. Not injuring or harming a single soul on the planet. Out of 310 million people, less than 9,000 were murdered by a firearm, stastically it can hardly be measured. Now many would say that statistics is a cold and calice way to address the murder of a human being, and that is true, however it is also the argument anti-gun nuts make to create new laws to limit law biding citizens. The fact is a 30 round magazine over a 10 round magazine has little if any impact to death when a person wishes to murder in mass.
The attempted tie in by Eugene between terrorism and gun laws shows how out of touch and kool-aid drenched he truly is; in fact he makes a point that the terrorists could have used a AR15. True, but they didn't, why? Well the why is because it didn't make much sense when you're looking for impact. Remember, using a firearm such as an AR15 in a murder is generally a planned, methodical thing, not a happen stance ease-of-access event. That is what uber anti-gun nuts like Eugene don't comprehend because they're too overwhelmend with emotion - much like a child who screams for hours about a cut knee, not realizing the pain has subsided.
The scary part is that most anti-gun nut readers will feed off of Eugene's non-sense, in fact, that is what he hopes. Thankfully, time passes and reality sets in. People realize that limiting firearms to stop crazy people probably isn't the smartest thing - because it casts a huge net for relatively minimal success; the risk-reward isn't there. People like Eugene need to get a grip on their adolecent emotions and get in touch with reality. The world isn't as scary as they've painted it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/eugene-robinson-guns-and-terrorism-a-double-barreled-standard/2013/04/22/7247571c-ab84-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html?wprss=rss_blogsandcolumns&tid=pp_widget
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