Gun Owners Must Take Center Stage

[Pullo]

Gun Owners Must Take Center Stage

This evening HBO will air a controversial new documentary film, four years in the making, entitled Gun Fight. Crafted by the acclaimed Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple, the film certainly illustrates one all too obvious truth about the gun debate in America: polar opposites continue to exist on both sides. Sadly, the film veers from a dispassionate, comprehensive view (tough to do in 88 minutes), into scoring many subtle advocacy points.

The film will be used to continue to fan the counter-productive divide between gun owners and many non-gun owners. Too many of the latter have been conditioned to reflexively call for "gun control" as a "common-sense" alternative, without having been presented with a full range of options or a detailed knowledge of the status quo. The terms "crime control" and "gun control" have little to do with one another and their juxtaposition as opposites creates a false dichotomy as the starting point for crafting intelligent answers to serious criminal justice issues before we even begin. .....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-feldman/gun-owners-must-take-cent_b_848723.html">Link

Feldman is an interesting guy and I have a lot of respect for his work in advocating our 2A rights.

[rl6214]

1. Already posted here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x400995

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. must be the phrasing ... I got +1 on that link. interesting.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Net recommendation: 0 votes (Your vote: +1) ---

not surprised at that. This one issue divides this country as bad as (if not worse) than abortion.

[lawodevolution]

4. although it will probably lean anti-gun it will probably also sell a lot of guns

[Hoyt]

10. Yep, show will get gunners excited by showing weapons made to kill a bunch of folks.

Keeping up with the Jones.

[msongs]

5. if gun owners would stop shooting people they might get more credibility lol nt

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

6. With statements like that, you're shooting YOUR credibility to shit

Using the highest numbers estimate (including murders, suicides & self defense), lets say there about 31,000 gun deaths every year. And since the bulk gunshot wound mortality is about 25%... that gives us about 124,000 shooting victims each year. And, just to humor you, lets say each one of those 124,000 shooting incidents is a unique shooter and unique victim.

So that gives us 124,000 "gun owners" having shot somebody last year.
Well, genius, there 80,000,000 gun owners in the US.

Mathematically, more than 99.85% of all gun owners in the US shot nobody last year. Even including gun owning criminals, being shot by a gun owner (let alone being killed) is VERY VERY rare. Your attack on the credibility of an entire group of individuals, based on the actions of 0.15% of them, is extremely ignorant and prejudiced.

[PavePusher]

7. Open Bigotry.

Stay classy...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. wow. just wow.

so funny, I forgot to laugh.

[PavePusher]

8. My prediction...

Hatchet job attacking gun owners as megalomaniac, careless paranoids.

But I hope I'm wrong...

[Hoyt]

11. Truth to Power.

[Straw Man]

12. Puh-leeze...

Truth to Power.

Object and referent are both false.