On Miguel’s advice, I went over to the Moms Demand Action – Florida Facebook page. Not 10 seconds in and I was overwhelmed by their lies.
That’s right. According to MDA, the shooting in a Miami park on MLK Day was the result of the NRA’s “guns everywhere, all the time” policy.
Well, the the Police are reporting that the shooting was caused by gang rivalry. Call it prejudice, but suspicion tells me that a bunch of gang members probably aren’t Florida CCW permit holders. No news outlet reported that anybody arrested has a CCW permit.
As an NRA member, I don’t recall the organization I belong to advocating for gang members and criminals to be allowed to run around with guns getting engaged in gang on gang shootouts.
They do advocate for the right of CCW permit holders to be able to carry lawfully, without the inconvenience of certain public places like parks being gun free zones. Again I’ll make the argument. If I’m a CCW permit holder, legally carrying concealed, why can I walk down a city sidewalk with my gun but not down a footpath through a local park? Will my gun taint the park with its gun cooties? The idea that a city should be a patchwork of places where it is legal to carry in some locations and illegal in others is ridiculous. All that really does is make it more likely for a CCW permit holder to get in trouble for accidentally cutting through a gun free zone and not knowing it.
Conflating the argument for allowing CCW permit holders to carry in city parks with allowing gangs to turn parks into battle grounds is either a level of stupidity that makes me think anybody who believes that is too dumb to be able to post anything to Facebook, or deliberately misleading to scare uninformed people.
Seeing as how MDA posted this, I’m going with deliberately misleading.
Lies, deception, and misdirection are really all they have. They have to avoid the fact that over 70% of murder victims are or have been involved in criminal activity. Three out of the four of those highlighted during a Chicago anti-gun march were either on parole or awaiting trial. The last one was killed by a group of gang-bangers who felt they were ‘disrespected’.
If you take away the motivation for criminal activity, the rate of violence will go down. Most of this crap is turf war over drug dealing. Legalize weed, coke and their derivatives (screw it, let’s do heroin too) and watch the violent crime rate go down. When you can get your fix at Walgreens you aren’t going to go to Rogelio down the street for your wares.
No offense to anyone named Rogelio.
And yes I’m aware hard drug use carries a “cost” too – however last time I checked there’s metric tons of public and private resources to address addiction.
MDA won’t have a leg to stand on once we legalize.
+1, Legalization isn’t a panacea, but it beats the hell out of what we have now. (Full disclosure, I was in college in the ’70s and actually remember them. Didn’t toke up or drop acid, knew those who did, but I didn’t.)
To MDA: Why do you presume that your fears should be allowed to forge my chains?
Its their inability to think rational thoughts. Its all emotion based and feelings. Sad. They offer no solutions, only emotion. Like 3 year old toddlers. Give em a good spanking and send em to bed..
“The idea that a city should be a patchwork of places where it is legal to carry in some locations and illegal in others is ridiculous. All that really does is make it more likely for a CCW permit holder to get in trouble for accidentally cutting through a gun free zone and not knowing it.”
I think they see that as a feature, not a bug. The more odious they make gun ownership the more likely people are to not bother getting their CCW permit. They see that as winning.