This piece, asking if America needs more gun control, makes some pretty stupid (if not outright inaccurate) claims:

The number of people killed by firearms has unfortunately risen after seven consecutive years of decline, and there are critical loopholes and ambiguities in the United States’ federal gun laws.

Got a cite for that? I’m fairly certain that is untrue. However, mark it because someone will come along and try to assert that this is because the assault weapons ban expired.

While the Second Amendment clearly gives citizens the right to bear arms, Americans have continued to radically abuse this right. Elaborate mass shootings frequently haunt the nation’s front pages, and smaller incidents casually go unnoticed.

You get the first part right. However, shooting someone is not a radical abuse of that right. It is committing a crime.

Congress’ failure to renew the familiar assault weapons ban has immunized gun manufacturers from civil liability for letting weapons fall in the hands of gun traffickers, snipers and terrorists – a critical factor in the dramatic nationwide killing spree.

Wow! The expiration of the AWB somehow immunized gun manufacturers?

The rest of the piece reads like a Brady Campaign press release, featuring such bogeymen as the non-existent gun show loopholes, terror and the assault weapons ban.

Update: I should read blogs before I start blogging. Joe points out she basically plagiarized a Brady Campaign special report.

Posted in uncategorized on April 4th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |