I’ve been talking to a few people about Brady Campaign Board Member Joan Peterson’s Sister’s murder. Turns out there is a book that talks about it. Found the chapter on the Barbara Lund murder was quite interesting, as its a VERY bizarre case.
Now one thing I read at Joan’s Blog in response to a comment by MAgunowner (who’s blog I only recently discovered) really struck a chord with me.
“I think you’re very sincere but misinformed. Do you have any idea how rare it is for an AR15 to be used in violent crime in the US?
The reason you’re getting such a strong negative reaction to your posts is that you’re trying to mess with a hobby that millions of Americans enjoy.
If you really want to save lives, can’t you just try to ban swimming pools or motorcycles, and leave us alone?” -MAgunowner
The Response?
“No, I won’t be doing that but thanks, anyway.” -Joan Peterson.
On page 134 of “Greed, Rage, and Love Gone Wrong: Murder in Minnesota” is this line.
Russ married Barbara Berglund in 1968. They had two children, a daughter who drowned at age five, and a son, Rober, and officer at Lunds.
Now this struck a chord with me, because #1 MAgunowner has a great point, in that Motorcycles and Swimming Pools kills lots more people than guns do, and certainly lots more than “Assault Weapons”.
Now every Brady and Joyce press release and biography of Joan talks about her sister’s murder, and Joan doesn’t let too much time pass between mentioning her sister’s death.
Now of course her sister was presumably close family member who was tragically killed…but what of her niece?
The whole point to the “Gun Death?” category is to #1. show that controlling the tool does NOT control the problem, but also #2. points out the desire for the Pro-Ignorance, anti-freedom crowd to overlook other deaths in favor of focusing on politically useful ones.
Is not a drowning death senseless and preventable? Isn’t the death of a young child hold more gravity than that of a middle-aged woman?
Of course everybody reacts to tragedy differently, but don’t you think this is a little bit strange, and likely self-serving?
“Pro-Ignorance, anti-freedom crowd”
Weerd,
You forgot Elitist! They (Joan) also own, gasp, GUNS!
After reading that whole blog end to end I can say that cognitive dissonance and an inability to conduct anything resembling critical thinking
make the whole thing a sad postscript to the real story of how her sister died. In the end its all a mask hiding hate for a device that could have easily been a kitchen knife or vase.
I can;t post at MAgunner, the blogger he uses doesn’t like my systems and just dumps messages.
Eck!