{"id":62185,"date":"2020-11-27T12:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62185"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:58:58","slug":"62185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62185","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Safety\u2019 Tips from Gun Prohibitionists Have Hidden Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cGun sales are way up, in Pennsylvania and across the country. And many are first-time owners,\u201d The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> notes in a \u201cPhilly Tips\u201d column<\/a>. \u201cHere\u2019s what you need to know about gun safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gun owners can be forgiven if that assertion causes their antennae to go up. The mainstream press, what I call the DSM (Duranty\/Streicher Media<\/a>), has not exactly been supportive of the right to keep and bear arms. Plus, we have seen too often how the term \u201ccommonsense gun safety laws\u201d is contorted by gun-grabbers (with little actual knowledge of firearms and shooting) to mean more infringements that won\u2019t do a thing to stop evil people from doing evil things and stupid\/lazy people from doing stupid\/lazy things.<\/p>\n

So, the initial questions ought to be: Who are the experts? What are their qualifications? Do they have an observable agenda?<\/h3>\n

Scott Charles is the first \u201cauthority\u201d we meet, presented as \u201ca gun violence educator and trauma outreach coordinator for Temple University Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says he\u2019s a gun owner, but if he has any specialized training\/credentialing that give him notable credibility as a gun safety expert, whoever wrote up his Temple Safety Net profile<\/a> failed to list them. Instead, we find he has been \u201can at-risk youth specialist for the State Department of Education [and] assisted in the development of a statewide rite of passage program for young African American males.\u201d He went on to get some degrees that have nothing to do with firearms and has been featured on network television, PBS, and a \u201cdocumentary\u201d about urban criminals using guns. He\u2019s received some community awards, one of them being from CeaseFire PA, a group that used to admit it was about \u201cgun control<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what are Charles’ \u201cgun safety\u201d qualifications? If you didn\u2019t give him time to look it up on the internet, would he know who Jeff Cooper was and be able to explain his rules? Would he be able to tell you what to do about safety issues shooters may encounter at the range like misfires or hangfires?\u00a0Could he even tell you what those are? Maybe he could. Maybe we just need to see a relevant CV. Maybe.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a gun owner and someone who sees the consequences of gun injury, this is something we should take seriously,\u201d \u00a0Charles pontificates. \u201cWe have a lot of novice, first-time gun owners taking that gun home where there are children, and the data we have says that firearm is most likely to be used to harm somebody in the home.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we see him adopting the gun-grabber talking point that guns in the home are more dangerous than not having them in the home. But he nonetheless says he has them in his home. Agenda much? Then you go to his Twitter page<\/a> and his political predispositions make it all clear.<\/p>\n

Our next \u201cexpert\u201d source is Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Everytown and a recitation of its propaganda about children and unsecured guns. Apparently, the Inquirer\u2019s<\/em> press release writer \u2026 sorry, reporter \u2026 couldn\u2019t find an organization that actually trains<\/a> gun owners (and trainers and police) in use and safety, so figured who better to approach than billionaire-funded citizen disarmament zealots?<\/p>\n

To be fair, he also consulted ATF. That is fair, isn\u2019t it?<\/h3>\n

The bottom line, the gun-grabbers demand government edicts to lock up your safety, taking the decision away from you. And to lock your ammunition up separately. That way, should you ever need to access your gun to defend against an intruder, no doubt he will be impressed with how thorough you are about mandatory \u201csafety.\u201d The problem, of course, is that it adds a couple of time-consuming steps that would make Joe Biden\u2019s recommendations to either fire your shotgun blindly off the balcony or through your front door problematic.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are situations where it makes perfect sense to lock guns up to prevent unauthorized access. No responsible gun owner argues otherwise. The point is each situation can be different and there is no one-size-fits-all approach, no matter what these \u201cexperts\u201d tell us. And presuming that there is, and then mandating storage, has resulted in things like pitchfork murders<\/a>, as opposed to responsible young people<\/a> being able to protect themselves and others.<\/p>\n

The fact remains, things like cable locks, when used by irresponsible idiots, can actually create a false sense of security which in turn results in risky practices like leaving guns lying around. It brings to mind the people who believe childproof medicine caps<\/a> mean kids can\u2019t take them off.<\/p>\n

Two cautionary tales from years past come to mind.<\/h3>\n

The first was from Gambino crime family underboss Sammy \u201cThe Bull\u201d Gravano, who said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cSafety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I\u2019ll pull the trigger. We\u2019ll see who wins.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The second was from another self-styled \u201cgun safety\u201d authority:<\/p>\n

\u201cDennis Henigan of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence drops the ball in front of a roomful of reporters, while trying to prove the efficacy of Saf-T-Lok, a purportedly easy-to-use combination lock in the gun’s grip. Henigan fumbles and fails to unlock the gun in a well-lit room with no intruder at the door\u2026 Finally disengaging the safety, he apologizes, \u2018Most people aren’t as klutzy as I am.’\u201d -From \u201cLawyers, Guns and Money\u201d by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard, Feb. 1, 1999<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You have to wonder how he\u2019d do with it in the dark, startled from sleep, fumbling frantically while his heart pounds, his hands shake, and an unknown someone draws closer\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Safety\u2019 Tips from Gun Prohibitionists Have Hidden Agenda \u201cGun sales are way up, in Pennsylvania and across the country. And many are first-time owners,\u201d The Philadelphia Inquirer notes in a \u201cPhilly Tips\u201d column. \u201cHere\u2019s what you need to know about gun safety.\u201d Gun owners can be forgiven if that assertion causes their antennae to go … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62186,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62185\/revisions\/62186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}