Good Indy Star gun article

[John Galt]

It looks like we're making progress ...
Swarens: Extremists on either side of gun issue aren?t stopping the killing

 

[Redtbird]

Hmmm... Blank page

 

[printcraft]

yikes!

What he said. ^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[chezuki]

 

[mbills2223]

Well... Bye.

Ooooh I hope VUPD comes to take care of it and posts that image!

 

[RobbyMaQ]

Thread cleanup on aisle 5.
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[Bennettjh]

 

[VERT]

Overall a positive article. It is too bad that Rep. Lucas could not bring this journalist completely over to our side. Interesting they mentioned Sharon Watts. In contrast to my elected Representative, she does not participate in the debate with good logic. Instead her group demonizes gun owners using scare tactics. That is the only card they have left to play. Want to create a society with less gun violence? Stop giving criminals the attention/publicity they crave. Stop trying to paint gun ownership as socially unacceptable. Teach people gun safety.

 

[OkieGirl]

Overall a positive article. It is too bad that Rep. Lucas could not bring this journalist completely over to our side. Interesting they mentioned Sharon Watts. In contrast to my elected Representative, she does not participate in the debate with good logic. Instead her group demonizes gun owners using scare tactics. That is the only card they have left to play. Want to create a society with less gun violence? Stop giving criminals the attention/publicity they crave. Stop trying to paint gun ownership as socially unacceptable. Teach people gun safety.

Oohhhhhh, there you go again trying to be logical with the uneducated, socially advantaged!

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

she made a lot of good points in the article and I thought it was good overall

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I'd like to know who the "gun rights advocates" are who, according to Tim Swarens, "adopt a 'not my problem' " attitude toward urban gun violence. For all the urban dwellers I know, urban gun violence is the compelling reason for carrying a firearm in the first place. If we all lived in the "Subdivision of Eden" (because "Garden" is too rural-sounding), we wouldn't feel a need for carrying a firearm for protection, would we? Perhaps if folks were more used to seeing law-abiding citizens carrying firearms openly, they wouldn't throw a hissy-fit when they saw their neighbor open-carrying in the dairy aisle of their local Kroger store.

 

[Indynic]

The very last paragraph of the article calls out legislators and "moms" to come up with something to reduce the violence. How about getting rid of government entitlements for able-bodied citizens and force them to get a job.

I am willing to bet if some of these offenders were too busy WORKING, they wouldn't be out on the streets killing each other....just a thought.

 

[KittySlayer]

I like how the author does a nice job of laying out Lucas's logical arguments but still can't bring himself to agree with the logic.