In her latest Screed Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign and the Million Mom March I think really exposes how she’s playing things. Joe Huffman asks her Just One Question She then gives a brief, unsupported answer about reducing “Gun Death”. Joe and a few other posters mention they are talking about overall violent crime and murder, not just the kind involving guns.
She acts confused. I gotta say I immediately threw the bullshit flag on that one. She finishes off with this whopper.
We do know that the Brady Law has prevented about 1.7 prohibited purchasers from buying guns. I have heard every argument possible about why that doesn’t prove anything. To me it proves that if we require background checks on all gun sales, we can prohibit people who shouldn’t have guns from getting them. Yes, they could go to the black market but they have been stopped in the first place. Some gun deaths are spur of the moment or when someone is quite angry. This is not at all scientific, but it seems logical to me that if you can stop people from buying guns, you may stop some gun injuries and deaths. We don’t know this since we have not tried it yet on a federal level. That’s the only way to make it work since then people couldn’t go to another state to get their gun from a private seller. So if there isn’t a gun around, one could say you have prevented a death in some cases. And since guns account for the highest number of homicides, it seems logical to me. For instance, I believe that my sister would be alive today if her estranged husband hadn’t had a lot of guns around his house when she stopped by to deliver some papers. He knew she was coming-she called him. He got ready with his gun and surprised her.
So essentially what she’s saying that before the invention of firearms there wasn’t any violence or murder. Am I getting that right?
Sorry Hon, but if you ban guns, but don’t show that overall VIOLENCE and HOMICIDE goes down (she can’t show that because such data doesn’t exist) guess what? The gun won’t be the #1 murder weapon anymore. Here’s my point.
A knife is the most common murder weapon and was used in 29 per cent of homicides in England and Wales last year. By contrast a gun is used only about nine per cent of homicides in England and Wales.
So much for that Joan!
Also again with your sister! First up, her husband at the time of your sister’s death, he was under a protection order, so he would fail a Brady Background Check, so its pretty disgusting that you are again presenting your sister’s corpse is in VERY bad taste…worse taste than pushing the foolish idea that “Gun Death” is somehow a useful metric, and therefore other death is less relevant. But also Why Is It Always About You? Your sister died, and that’s tragic and horrible, but you can’t project your sister’s death on the entire world.
But let’s face it, do you think somebody like Joan Peterson doesn’t understand the validity of having overall violent crime go down to prove success of gun control?
Of course not, she’s being coy!
