Seen at DAMIT’s:

This is such a divisive issue. I’m a little surprised that the third option didn’t get more votes. It seems that gun control is SO divisive, people can’t be rational about it.

Seems to me that according to recent surveys and your own poll (with only 3% calling for gun control) that it’s not so divisive at all. And the only folks who seem to be incapable of being rational are the gun controllers. We pro-gun sorts have, time and again, made our case and, as a result, keep shutting down the comments sections of anti-gun blogs. They simply can’t stand up when there is actual discourse. We win, they lose. The want only echo chambers. So, as I keep saying, we’re winning.

DAMIT is also having the spouse on guns problem and notes:

I know my wife and I have very different opinions about firearms. I want to teach the children about them so that I don’t have to worry about them. She wants to keep the children insulated from them. My thought on that is that we don’t know what they’ll face in life at other peoples’ houses, and kids are naturally curious. If they don’t know how to handle a firearm safely, then they and everyone around them is in danger. She’d rather scare them silly about the subject (much as she is). She can’t listen to anything relating to guns rationally.

Well, scaring kids and feeding them misinformation works so well on kids when it comes to complex issues. This strategy is doing a wonderful job of keeping kids from having sex or doing drugs, right? Oh, wait . . .

Now, look, kids and guns don’t mix. It’s a given. I’ve written about it before and what my plans are. And it’s never too early to start teaching young-uns.

US Citizen has some advice on this subject as well. And there’s a discussion at AKAA45.

As to why have a gun, it’s simple. Time and time again, active resistance with firearms in the face of violent crime has been shown to be the most effective to reducing injury to the victims. Period. Reason enough.

And, of course, you should get your kid active in shooting because:

The study was conducted from 1993-1995 by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Child psychologists tracked 4,000 boys and girls aged 6 to 15 in Denver, Pittsburgh, and Rochester, N.Y. Their findings?

— Children who get guns from their parents don’t commit gun crimes (0 percent) while children who get guns illegally are quite likely to do so (21 percent).

— Children who get guns from parents are less likely to commit any kind of street crime (14 percent) than children who have no gun in the house (24 percent) — and are dramatically less likely to do so than children who acquire an illegal gun (74 percent.)

— Children who get guns from parents are less likely to use banned drugs (13 percent) than children who get illegal guns (41 percent.)

— Most strikingly, the study found: “Boys who own legal firearms have much lower rates of delinquency and drug use (than boys who own illegal guns) and are even slightly less delinquent than non-owners of guns.”

Posted in uncategorized on August 22nd, 2007 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |