Leftist Thinking: Mass Shooting Victims Wouldn’t Want Lawful Guns

The arguments in the on-going debate over guns and having them in the hands of private citizens is easy to win on the merits. What is more difficult is dealing with the tactics of how the discussion is carried out, and what happens when you begin to dismantle the arguments with pure rational thought.

20160115: Guns & 2016

America's Newsroom 20160115: Martha MacCallum, Emily Tisch Sussman, and Kevin McCullough discussing Marco Rubio and Governor Chris Christie on the issue of #Guns in #2016

Posted by Kevin McCullough on Friday, January 15, 2016

In the clip you see Emily Tisch Sussman playing the same cards so many have before her.

The problem is that almost zero of them hold any truth. There aren’t 30,000 gun murders a year, its closer to 11,000 (which in a nation of 370,000,000 people is statistically invisible at .00002%. She effectively moves the goal posts in the conversation so that after each observation she gives is dismantled, there is a different one to focus on.

She claimed that the South Carolina shooting was evidence of the need for more executive action from President Obama–which would be unnecessary completely had only one person in the Bible study been armed.

She claimed that law-abiding gun owners are more likely to have those guns wind up in the hands of people that do bad things with them. Really? With 300,000,000 legally owned fire-arms in the nation, how is there anywhere near that many nefarious acts being carried out?

She claimed that–even when faced with the evidence that the Garland, Tx (Pam Gellar, Draw Mohammed) attempted shooting was thwarted by “good people with guns”–that “good people with guns” is mythical.

She claimed that the Fort Hood shooting demonstrated why “guns didn’t stop” a mass shooting. But she ignored or forgot that Armed Services personnel aren’t allowed to carry their sidearms on Ft. Hood premises.

Lastly and unbelievably she made the argument that the victims of mass shootings themselves would in some way NOT WISH to have someone to be armed and to shoot back in the midst of one of these killing sprees.

Sadly she notes that one victim from the Virginia Tech shooting incident has stated that he would not have had the clarity to know who the shooter was or how to take him down.

My contention is that if we are going to take a survey of the victims of mass shootings and their feelings on private gun ownership–let’s begin with interviewing everyone who has died at the hands of these merciless killers–with no lawful means of defending themselves.

Of all the arguments the left proffers on taking away guns (under the guise of stopping gun violence) there is not a single one of them that has merit.

Which is why we must not let those making the arguments and moving the goalposts get away with such rigorous intellectual dishonesty.

#ICYMI: From Terror To Joy–*LIVE*

#ICYMI: A pretty incredible night!

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1. We are so thrilled to welcome Portland, Oregon and “TALK 1640 – News-Talk-Business” to the Baldwin/McCullough family. Reaching much of Oregon and a good chunk of southern Washington we couldn’t be more excited to be part of the Salem Media Group family in the Great Northwest!

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2. In such a busy *news* week we wanted to make sure we advanced the conversation as it pertained to the biggest story of the week. San Bernadino WAS an act of terror. It has been so admitted by the FBI. But the White House was far more worried about whether or not people were being “bigoted” in their use of the word “Islam.”

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3. Enough of the bad news. We also sat down with musician Keith Getty. Having been featured on CBS This Morning and the subject of a PBS Christmas special that has now been viewed by 40,000,000 viewers, the Getty entourage invade Carnegie Hall (and other historic locales across America) this week to present “Joy-An Irish Christmas.” A pre-holiday treat for all the uber-emotionally-gooey holiday lovers–just like KMC.

Truly an episode of Baldwin/McCullough *LIVE* you did not want to miss!

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