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The Spectacle Blog
Tim Carney, the Washington Examiner muck-raking maestro, remonstrates:
Scariness is what “assault weapons” talk is all about. The 1994 “assault weapons ban” didn’t have a real definition of assault weapon. … And restricting rifle ownership has very little bearing on curbing murders. According to FBI data, rifles are responsible for less than 3 percent of all U.S. murders for which the murder is weapon is known. You are five times more likely to be killed by a knife or a blade than by a rifle. Handguns, the data show, are used in a vast majority of gun murders. But handguns don’t look as scary as the AR-15.
Mr. Carney also decries President Obama’s maudlin use of children as props, and his use of their innocent, understandable concern for the implications of gun policy, expressed after Sandy Hook in letters to the White House, as emotional ammunition against political opponents.
Children should not be exploited by the leaders and guardians charged with their best interests. As a family man with children of his own, Mr. Carney understands that.
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Frog in Uniform | 1.17.13 @ 1:24PM
Difficulty to post anything today... Am I suspected to be a spammer?
Pecos Pete| 1.17.13 @ 2:01PM
Frog: Interesting that the VIEW ALL COMMENTS shows 7 posts and your comment is the only comment posted.
Stan Redmond| 1.17.13 @ 2:12PM
Facts have no place in advancing the Obama agenda. Never has, never will.
Butch| 1.17.13 @ 2:30PM
I'm seeing it saying 9 posts and I see only three.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.17.13 @ 3:41PM
I am seeing 10, and this would be the fifth by my count, but as the above article indicates, factual numbers don't enjoy a prominent place in this debate.
As the number of editorial interns seems to be exploding, and the soliciation for more donations is being added again, that might also contribute to the difficulty posting, and the change in font.
Frog in Uniform | 1.17.13 @ 4:04PM
It just doesn't want to include my wikipedia link re the Bath School Massacre in 1927 where no guns were used.
Ralphie| 1.17.13 @ 8:27PM
Shame on the parents of those children for allowing the exploitation.
spike59| 1.18.13 @ 6:04AM
are you kidding? i'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of 'SEMI-automatic assault weapon'....kinda like a 'two wheeled unicycle'