{"id":68860,"date":"2021-06-10T00:39:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T05:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68860"},"modified":"2021-06-10T00:39:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T05:39:16","slug":"68860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68860","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment O&#8217; The Day:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;I could be down for this. Maybe it would keep those afraid of any firearm from moving away from the coasts.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>BLUF:<br \/>\n<em>Virginia is concerned about a \u201cbad\u201d America.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The one to which she refers \u2014 one in which houses host guns \u2014 was previously known to both Republicans and Democrats as just \u201cAmerica.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/alexparker\/2021\/06\/09\/la-times-writer-wants-gun-ownership-reported-on-real-estate-listings-but-for-the-opposite-reason-as-you-n394363\">LA Times Writer Wants Gun Ownership Reported on Real Estate Listings, but for the Opposite Reason as You<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re considering moving to a new area, what are the pluses that matter most?\u00a0Low crime? Good schools? Trash pickup?<\/p>\n<p>A writer for The Los Angeles Times has another metric that may be worth consideration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-4\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-300x250_4\" class=\"gpt-ad ad-250 text-center\">On Tuesday, opinion columnist Virginia Heffernan took to Twitter with an idea:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cReal-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She\u2019d also like info on the \u201cnumber of annual mass shootings in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime to change what a \u2018bad neighborhood\u2019 is,\u201d she announced.<\/p>\n<p>What if someone owns a modern sporting rifle, also known as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gungenius.com\/top-selling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best-selling<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/blogs\/hunting\/10-best-deer-guns-hunting-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunting<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanrifleman.org\/articles\/2020\/1\/16\/5-best-selling-rifles-of-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rifle<\/a>\u00a0in America?<\/p>\n<p>She believes that\u2019d constitute a bad place for children:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[A]nd introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence. No one should say, \u2018This is a great place to raise kids\u2019 about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stop all the racializing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe metric would be simple. Example: Staten Island (pop 474k) has 4x the gun ownership per capita of the Bronx (pop 1.4m). If that reads as safer or more [free] to some people, Staten Island is for them. If not, maybe time for the Bronx. Take race, class, politics out of the real-estate equation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Real-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region. <\/p>\n<p>Time to change what a \u201cbad neighborhood\u201d is.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/page88\/status\/1402241221163094022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The metric would be simple. <\/p>\n<p>Example: Staten Island (pop 474k) has 4x the gun ownership per capita of the Bronx (pop 1.4m).<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/page88\/status\/1402248103349129227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019d definitely be a lot of items to track.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Switzerland\u2019s Small Arms Survey reported there were nearly 400,000,000 guns in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>That was, obviously, two years before 2020\u2019s gun-buying surge.<\/p>\n<p>As for \u201cassault rifles,\u201d the AR-15\u2019s certainly been vilified courtesy of impressive, dedicated effort by some on the Left side of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, of course, ownership of any firearm doesn\u2019t equal impending murder, and the lightweight modern rifle isn\u2019t employed in most gun crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of such are, as you know, committed with handguns.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the Pew Research Center, of the FBI data available, handhelds were used in 64% of America\u2019s 10,982 gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>That same year, only 4% involved a rifle \u2014 that\u2019s any rifle, not just the AR-15.<\/p>\n<p>As for mass shootings, long guns aren\u2019t necessary. The deadliest as of 2007 \u2014 Virginia Tech\u2019s 32-fatality assault \u2014 was accomplished via one Glock 19 handgun and one Walther P22 handgun.<\/p>\n<p>That crime spree remains the most lethal school shooting in history (1927\u2019s attack on Michigan\u2019s Bath Consolidated School saw 44 perish, but by way of a bomb).<\/p>\n<p>Back to Virginia Heffernan, she made the news in February over the kindness of her neighbors \u2014 who may or may not own an AR-15.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, she reported they\u2019d plowed her snow-covered driveway and done \u201ca great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those folks weren\u2019t too dissimilar from Nazis \u2014 they supported Trump.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote, \u201cMy neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans. They kept him in business with their support. \u2026 I\u2026can\u2019t give my neighbors absolution; it\u2019s not mine to give.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But their generosity made things tough:<\/p>\n<p>When someone helps you when you\u2019re down, or snowed in, it\u2019s almost impossible to regard them as a blight on the world. In fact, you\u2019re more likely to be overwhelmed with gratitude and convinced of the person\u2019s inherent goodness.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled a French family once saying of Nazi occupation during WWII, \u201cWe were happy because Nazis were very [polite].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, she compared the weirdos next door to Hezbollah:<\/p>\n<p>The favors Hezbollah does for people in the cities Tyre and Sidon probably don\u2019t involve snowplows, but, like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own \u2014 the Shiite sick, elderly and hungry. They offer protection and hospitality and win loyalty that way. And they also demand devotion to their brutal, us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause. Some of us are family, the favors say; the rest are infidels.<\/p>\n<p>As for Virginia\u2019s real estate revolution regarding the number of folks\u2019 firearms, the guns would \u2014 of course \u2014 have to be registered. Hence, the count wouldn\u2019t necessary include those possessed for criminal use.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, if not for the registration component, I\u2019d guess most conservatives would love the idea.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d assume, very possibly, that an armed neighborhood would mean a safer one.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, if the information was made known to criminals, many would bet they\u2019d target other, more defenseless areas.<\/p>\n<p>And that, my friends, is what you call a great cultural divide.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re headed toward a point where polar-opposite sides want the same things for polar-opposite reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The split was once nowhere near so severe.<\/p>\n<p>And there used to not be such an aversion to guns.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950\u2019s, a rifle in the home wasn\u2019t an incendiary idea.<\/p>\n<p>Neither was it, largely, in the 80\u2019s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The year is 1985, it\u2019s called the Chevrolet outdoorsman package. This truck came with a Winchester model 94, gun rack and everything else you see in the bottom picture. We\u2019ll never see anything like this again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nPhghARZP5\">pic.twitter.com\/nPhghARZP5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Keyes (@michaelkeyes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelkeyes\/status\/1320725264729452544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s concerned about a \u201cbad\u201d America.<\/p>\n<p>The one to which she refers \u2014 one in which houses host guns \u2014 was previously known to both Republicans and Democrats as just \u201cAmerica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment O&#8217; The Day: &#8220;I could be down for this. Maybe it would keep those afraid of any firearm from moving away from the coasts.&#8221; BLUF: Virginia is concerned about a \u201cbad\u201d America. 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