Projection
On the guns in parks bills, Metro Nashville parks director needs to drink a nice big cup of calm his ass down:
These are places for fun, not guns. You mention this and my blood boils. That would put our children in harm’s way. That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard. All you have to do is turn on the news and you hear about people being killed by guns. And yet they want to give people more access to guns. Many of our parks are adjacent to schools. Do we want to have people walking around with guns next to a school playground where there are children playing?
Well, if that’s all it takes to get your blood boiling, I can see why you don’t want people armed. You think they’re like you and prone to fits of rage. And conflating that this gives people more access to guns? I think he needs a tissue.
And, of course, the bill only applies to lawful handgun carry permit holders and not everyone. And we know that carry permit holders are more law-abiding than even police officers. You’ll note that, like most things written by Jeff Woods regarding guns, it isn’t made exactly clear that we’re talking about handgun carry permit holders only. After all, gotta get some hysteria going for all those cool alt-weekly readers.
Oh, and that picture of the guy carrying that Lahti 20mm you’re using on the top there? It’s not in the public domain and you’re violating his copyright. I’m sure you’ll be hearing from that guy soon.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Guns are allowed in parks here in Washington. Have been for at least several decades. Kids don’t seem to be in danger. Jeff Woods is a dumbass.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
“And we know that carry permit holders are more law-abiding than even police officers.”
I don’t doubt that this is absolutely true, but apart from a few stats from Texas and Florida I have never seen solid numbers supporting this.
Does anyone know of a reliable source of data on this subject?
February 24th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Kaltbluter, I’ve only seen the numbers from TX and FL.
February 24th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
“Do we want to have people walking around with guns next to a school playground where there are children playing?”
Markie Marxist sez: “Absolutely not! How are our Marxist/warrior/hero/criminal/mass murderers supposed to kill all those kids if their parents have guns? Look at all the political mileage we got out of the Stockton massacre! Just think what would have happened if our man Purdy had been stopped just as he got started! California wouldn’t have an AW ban, and we never would have gotten the national AW ban through under Clinton! We need dead bodies for the national body count that drives our totalitarian gun ban agenda and dead kids work better than dead adults for that. The more funerals for dead kids on CNN the better! I just love seeing their little corpses, and I‘m sure that my commie compadre, Metro parks director Roy Wilson, loves seeing them too.”
February 24th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
I doubt the numbers would be wildly different in other states re: permit holders. Unless other states put out voodoo mind rays that makes permit holders flip out like a ninja.
February 24th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I left a post on obscure-reference.com for the owner of that photo …
February 24th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
That ‘boiling blood’ argument (I’m a madman, so you must be, too) explains a lot. John Woods of VT said in the Dallas paper that “students with guns can easily have emotional breakdowns.” And that was quoted in Inside Higher Ed today.
If the school experience is driving our children mad, guns aren’t the first problem we need to deal with. How about banning some schools?
February 24th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
If we allow ordinary citizens to carry in parks, the rangers might have to tone down the ‘chip on the shoulder’ and I’m the only one with a gun attitude.
Here in Alaska, one of the rangers told my mother-in-law that she couldn’t pick up a rock or soon there would be no rocks left. This is at the moraine of a glacier. (more rocks that the world population).