[For those that are not aware as to how the facts have been
lied about by the Clintonistas... --MS]
>From Wash. Times:: Editorial
Misinformed moms
Frankie Bishop Odom's son, Chris, died after being shot outside a Pine
Bluff, Ark., bar in 1997, but she wasn't among the half a million or so
persons marching for gun control in Washington this weekend. "I don't
blame the mothers who want the handguns done away with, I don't blame them
at all," she said. But, she told the New York Times, she didn't think it
would keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Moreover, she added, "In
this town, it's not a bad idea for you to have a gun." Pine Bluff having
had the nation's highest murder rate in 1997 and 1998, perhaps she didn't
want to rule out using a gun to protect herself from crime that police
evidently could not stop.
Mrs. Odom's ambivalence to the Million Mom March here in Washington this
past weekend captures some of the doubts and concerns about the
gun-control agenda that much of the media missed.
TV journalists, almost to a person, found the likes of weapons
registration, licensing, mandatory waiting periods and other proposed
regulations so commonsensical that they wondered aloud why march
organizers didn't go further. Said MSNBC talking head Soledad O'Brien,
"The Million Mom Marchers' platform is admittedly moderate. Do you think
it's too moderate, that it doesn't go far enough?"
March spokesmen didn't seem to need much prompting. In an interview on
ABC's "This Week," march emcee Rosie O'Donnell carefully downplayed any
possible use of weapons for self-defense. Asked about the case of Suzanna
Hupp, whose parents and other restaurant patrons died at the hands of a
gun-toting maniac because, Mrs. Hupp says, state law forbade her from
bringing in a handgun with which she could have defended them, Miss
O'Donnell said she could understand her "pain" but not her desire for
self-defense. "She wants everyone else in the restaurant to have a weapon
to shoot the bad guy?" Miss O'Donnell asked. "So many people are going to
be hurt doing that." As Mrs. Hupp's case shows, disarming people can hurt
them too. TV stars can count on security to protect them; ordinary
Americans can't.
Some perspective on gun violence is useful here.
Anyone watching the march, or looking at Clinton administration press
releases, would think that careless or accidental gun violence is rampant
in this country and kills toddlers by the thousands each year. In fact, as
the Centers for Disease Control has reported, in all of 1996, there were
17 accidental gun deaths for children under 5 years old and 42 for
children under 10. (By contrast, 40 children under 5 drown each year in
5-gallon buckets, and 80 drown in bathtubs.)
The vast majority of "children" who die as a result of gun violence are
ages 15-19, many of them as a result of gang fights over who controls drug
turf.
That's hardly a consolation to the parents of these victims or to
policy-makers; one of those deaths is too many. But the strategy for
combating drug-related violence might be different than for preventing
5-year-olds and their friends from playing with loaded weapons. If Miss
O'Donnell, for example, thinks their untimely deaths warrant licensing and
registering guns, does she want to license and register buckets too?
Simplistic gun-control solutions to complex social problems, involving
everything from one-parent families to parental neglect to lousy schools,
divert attention from the real problems facing American families and
contribute to unjustified complacency in responding to them. The guess
here is that women like Mrs. Odom know that. One can only hope the
marchers don't find out the hard way.
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