“CITIZENS WHO LEGALLY OWN GUNS ARE MORE FRIGHTENING...”

...THAN THE CRIMINALS WHO USE WEAPONS TO COMMIT CRIMES.”
SO SAYS OP-ED COLUMNIST TRISHA BISHOP OF THE BALTIMORE SUN IN A PIECE PUBLISHED LAST WEEK.  SHE WENT ON TO DESCRIBE HOW SICKENING LOCAL BILLBOARDS EXTORTING GUNS AND CONCEALED CARRY MADE HER FEEL WHEN SHE LOOKS AT THEM.  SHE CLAIMS SHE HAS THE LUXURY OF BEING A WHITE MIDDLE-CLASS WOMAN IN A LARGELY SEGREGATED CITY (BALTIMORE) AND THAT SHE IS SHIELDED FROM CRIMINALS BUT NOT FROM HER NEIGHBORS WHO OWN GUNS.  SHE GOES ON TO SAY SHE IS ENTITLED TO A GUN REGISTRY SO SHE CAN IDENTIFY THOSE AROUND HER WHO ARM THEMSELVES SO SHE CAN PROTECT HER CHILD. SHE GOES ON TO SAY THAT SEX OFFENDERS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER PUBLICLY, WHY NOT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS?

OBVIOUSLY SHE DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT HOW BALTIMORE CRIMINALS SET A NEW MURDER RATE RECORD FOR 2015 WITH A PER CAPITA HIGH OF 48.97 PER 100,000 MANY USING ILLEGAL GUNS.

FOR 2010 THE CDC REPORTED  ACCIDENTAL SHOOTINGS AMONG CHILDREN (NOT GANG RELATED) UNDER 6 YEAR OLDS WAS 1. 

ALL CHILDREN UNDER 10 WAS 36  AMONG AN ESTIMATED 41 MILLION CHILDREN.  TWO THIRDS WERE COMMITTED NOT BY OTHER CHILDREN BUT BY ADULT MALES WITH A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND. HER FEARS OF HER NEIGHBORS GUNS ARE UNWARRANTED.

NATIONWIDE IN 2010 DROWNINGS KILLED 609 CHILDREN, FIRE 262, POISONINGS 54, CAR ACCIDENTS RESULTED IN 923 DEATHS OF CHILDREN YOUNGER THAN 10.

SO HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW HOPOLOPHOBES WOULD NEVER LET THE DATA GET IN THE WAY OF TRUE IGNORANCE.  I SHOULD HOPE MS. BISHOP WOULD DO THE WORLD A FAVOR AND NOT PURCHASE A GUN, OBVIOUSLY HER FEAR OF TOOLS MAY LEAD HER TO INJURING HERSELF OR OTHERS.

THE DISINFORMATION WAR CONTINUES...