You know, twenty or thirty years ago, the gun control industry seemed to enjoy lots of cash from rich benefactors. They also were having some success passing onerous gun control laws at not only the federal level, but at the state and local level as well.
Back then they also enjoyed the near-universal support of most (politically appointed) police administrators. They parlayed that support into the public perception that police in general supported gun control, and used that to sway Americans to support their potentially tyrannical cause.
How things have changed for them.
Enter Joan Peterson. She’s a board member for the foundering Brady Campaign.
How did she get involved in advocating for gun control?
She was emotionally distraught after her sister (and the sister’s extra-marital lover) was murdered at the hands of the sister’s criminal (twice convicted of theft), mentally ill (diagnosed as a kleptomaniac) husband. Instead of blaming the millionaire husband’s mental illness and criminal tendencies, she blames the gun. It’s completely irrational, we agree.
Peterson loves to claim the death of her sister was an example of a normal, healthy, law-abiding “good guy” who just cracked one day and offed his wife for no good reason. She adamantly denies her former brother-in-law was a criminal or a nutcase, despite his criminal convictions (plural) and diagnosed mental illness.
We suspect Peterson’s recollection is nothing more than a psychological denial response to the tragedy. In layman’s terms, to be charitable, she’s delusional to maintain her tenuous sanity. In not-so-charitable terms, she’s batpoop crazy.
Sadly though, she continues to pander that mythical “good guys + guns = danger to everyone” routine. It showed up again in recent days at her “Common Gun Sense” blog (no links, because we don’t want to drive traffic to her):
What is wrong with this picture and other gun news?
In my last post, I talked again about the fallacy of the “bad guys” with the guns and the need for the “good guys” to protect themselves from these awful people who are lurking around in every nook and cranny of our communities. The problem with this false idea is that the “good guys” with guns are killing people every day. Take this Ohio domestic shooting as just one example:
She goes on to cherry pick a handful of incidents she claims represent good guys just out of the blue killing innocents. She then closes with:
UPDATE:
It didn’t take long to find yet another example of a “law abiding” “good guy” with a gun doing something very tragic and stupid with his gun. A Pennsylvania State Trooper was killed when another trooper’s gun discharged in a training session and hit him in the chest.
If you actually read that before now at her blog, go buy yourself a lottery ticket. The “Common Gun Sense” blog is ranked 3,203,000 world wide. Her blog’s audience is probably measured in hundreds each week. For comparison purposes, we’re ranked in the low 400,000s and the higher you go in rankings, the more it requires logarithmic growth in traffic to move up.
While her blog is insignificant, pretty much like the Brady Campaign has become, it’s illustrative how those members of big gun control who don’t enjoy billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s largesse are utterly and completely flailing around, even to the point they are openly attacking people they not long ago touted as their allies – over a terrible accident.
Even worse, they are equating that tragic training accident involving state cops with domestic violence killings and using all of that to represent that good guys with guns are a danger to our society. How pathetic is that?
I agree that the old girl with the Moe Howard haircut is in denial, it’s much easier to blame the gun and try to get others on board with this lie than to face the unbearable truth….. her sister is dead because she liked to **** men outside of her marriage. her sister is dead because her brother in law had mental problems and was a criminal. the sick liberals like Sarah Brady and Shannon Watts feed off people like this