Via David and Jeff, comes this bit about some anti-gun person named Jenny Price claiming she was targeted by gun nuts. Some background is that her brother and his fiance were killed by the fiance’s mother. Now, she advocates a total ban on handguns. Anyhoo, she writes:

Targeted by Gun Nuts

After she wrote a gun-control op-ed, the writer got threats and worse: a blogosphere hit job on her murdered brother.

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I Googled my article. And so began my strange, weeklong trip through chat rooms on such pro-gun websites as keepandbeararms.com freerepublic.com, packing.org and rightnation.us.

I don’t think those are blogs. Those are message boards. Not sure what rightnation is. More:

I was not surprised by the insults directed at me. I’m familiar with the name-calling in gun control debates: “stupid,” “beyond stupid,” “liar,” “criminal-coddling leftist scumbag,” “Los Angeles coward.”

OK, here’s a clue, one of those insults is not like the other. Most are just insults. But liar sticks. And here’s why. In your piece, you wrote (and I addressed it here):

Of the 12,000 guns used to kill people every year, 160 are used in legitimate self-defense. Guns in the home are used seven times more often for murder than for self-defense.

The first sentence consists of weasel words as, what is obviously not included, are self-defense uses wherein no one is killed. The second sentence is a blatant fabrication. Her hysterical piece on banning handguns is just that. She’s close to a victim of gun violence and feels the need to do something, even if it is the wrong thing. Policies should not be based on the factually inaccurate and misguided rantings of those who have suffered a tragedy.

She then notes that some folks questioned whether her tale of tragedy was true:

But objections to my account of my brother’s murder left me speechless. There were two sorts of challenges.

First, many chat-room members declared that the killing had to have been justified and was most likely an act of self-defense.

One participant, “armymarinedad,” wrote: “I would submit it was a liberal mind-set.” Liberals, many others agreed, are mean to their parents — mean enough to warrant homicide. “One can’t help wondering,” went one response to armymarinedad, “what the mother had done in a previous life to deserve … a Liberal for a daughter.”

The second challenge was that I had made up the story of my brother’s murder. “Law-abiding gun owners simply do not commit crimes,” “Gunslinger” posted — logic hard to refute. But like David’s killer, thousands of law-abiding citizens annually become criminals when they pick up a firearm and shoot other people.

“Chances are very good,” wrote “Plutarch” on freerepublic.com, “that her brother, if she has one, is alive and well.”

Plutarch and his freerepublic fellows Googled my story about David — and were encouraged when they came up empty because they were certain that “this remarkable murder” would have received massive media attention.

“I love to catch them [liberals] lying!” declared “mad_as_he$$.”

Now, look. If you wish to challenge Ms. Price on the merits of her argument, please do. But this witch hunt to find some dirt on her or her family is uncalled for. Period. It is disgusting.

I did a search for her name and found little. Then I searched for “Jenny Price” handgun ban and found a bunch of blog entries by bloggers I know and read. I cannot find (after searching) the bits she refers too. I searched the KABA archives as well. I don’t venture over to freerepublic, so I don’t know.

Still, it’s another lie as none of the sites she lists are blogs. The blogosphere did not do a hit. Angry, hateful people on message boards did. Try perusing some anti-gun boards some time.

She closes with:

I can cite statistics, and I can tell you why the right to carry a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun with a 10-shot clip is not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. .

No, you can’t.

But the paranoia and bone-chilling hatred that spew from such sites as packing.org and freerepublic.com make for an equally — and unusually — effective argument for a ban on handguns

Pot to kettle. Come in. Over.

Now, Jenny Price, try addressing the reasoned responses to your tripe, if you have it in you.

Posted in uncategorized on August 14th, 2006 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |