Jayne Lyn Stahl “More Silencers For Guns Please”
Published by Ninth Stage October 31st, 2007 in Culture, Gun Control, Ignorance.Not Really.
At The Stuffiness Host, Jayne Lyn Stahl backs away from her recent vilifying of NRA members and then charges back in against the vast right-wing gun lobby*, with vigor.
Generalizing from her “feelings”, she puts the language of the left where our constitutionally protected civil right to arms should be.
Increasingly, in a world in which the American flag has become synonymous with another four letter word “duck,” and yet another “bomb,” this is not time to mince words. These folks who equate what they think of as their constitutional empowerment have, for the past several years, had a free ride, but now that a changing of the guard is in sight, they cling to their illusions of entitlement like a leper clings to what little skin he has left. And, to parody the Dylan Thomas poem, it’s as if every gun-toting Tom, Dick, and Harry decided not to go “gentle into that good night,” but to “rage, rage, against the dying of the might.”
(Bold mine.)
Odd too because lefties are usually all about “empowerment” and “entitlement”.
UPDATE: In a comment to Stahls post, BritPatJax says
You tread much too softly Jayne as I am appalled at the killing here. In my daughters city of Birmingham England one million people hardly ever hear of gun crime in their whole lives. Petty crime and burglary yes. Occasional knifings yes. Three Police killed in 12 years in the whole nation of Britain with 30 million and there were 4 killings just on Florida/Georgia night here in Jacksonville. Not to do with the game. I did not realize when I came her six years ago how relieved I would turn out to be that my two daughters live without guns in a country without guns and where there is national mourning if a policeman is killed. Even the Police manage to do their jobs without guns. Go figure?
Bwa ha ha ha. “[M]y two daughters live without guns in a country [England] without guns.” Doesn’t read the news much does she? What about violent crime? Wikipedia says that England has a violent crime rate of 18 per 1000 and Birmingham’s rate is 25.5 per 1000 inhabitants. The FBI says that the U.S. has a violent crime rate of 4.7 per 1000 and Jacksonville’s is 8.3 per 1000.
BritPatJax, I think you might want to encourage your daughters to move somewhere safer. Somewhere like the United States.
* AKA “vast right-wing gunspiracy”.
“You tread much too softly Jayne as I am appalled at the killing here. In my daughters city of Birmingham England one million people hardly ever hear of gun crime in their whole lives. Petty crime and burglary yes. Occasional knifings yes. Three Police killed in 12 years in the whole nation of Britain with 30 million and there were 4 killings just on Florida/Georgia night here in Jacksonville. Not to do with the game. I did not realize when I came her six years ago how relieved I would turn out to be that my two daughters live without guns in a country without guns and where there is national mourning if a policeman is killed. Even the Police manage to do their jobs without guns. Go figure?”
“[M]y two daughters live without guns in a country [England] without guns.†Doesn’t read the news much does she? What about violent crime? Wikipedia says that England has a violent crime rate of 18 per 1000 and Birmingham’s rate is 25.5 per 1000 inhabitants. The FBI says that the U.S. has a violent crime rate of 4.7 per 1000 and Jacksonville’s is 8.3 per 1000.”
Aint it amazing how self delusional some people can be? BTW, here in Evanston Wyoming, population about 12,000, most of whom are avid gun owners, our violent crime rate is a whopping 0.7 per 1000 people.
Fort Myers is more dangerous than London you idiots. Brits call violent crime ‘purse snatching’. Totally different planet and species reading your stuff.