[gun-fucious]

The following is written testimony given in MD yesterday by Nancy Lewin of JHU's Center for Gun Policy and Research at the HB 844 Assault ban hearing.

The final but perhaps most compelling reason for passing this law, especially now in the wake of
the recent sniper attacks in our state and the daily bloodshed we see in Baltimore City, is what
we know about the costly burden of fear when it assaults our individual and collective sense of
security.While these costs are less quantifiable by health or economic measures, fear is likely
the one cost of gun violence that the majority of us can relate to.

attached is her complete submission

[trapshooter]

Translation:

"We have no facts or logic that support our position. We're just a bunch of scared losers who want all US citizens to join with us in fear and subjugation. Thank you, drive through".

[BogBabe]

Their "feelings" is the anti's greatest trump card. No facts can be used to refute it. No logic can disprove it.

They, and only they, are the final arbiters of what will ease their fears. They, and only they, can decide when they have achieved sufficiently draconian control to allay their fears.

[El Tejon]

I.E.: "BAAAAAHHH!"

The flock is frightened.

:rolleyes:

[gun-fucious]

but such an emotional argument can be reduced to absurdity

i am afraid of heights
i am afraid of germs
i am afraid of insects
i am afraid of the boogieman
i am afraid of Sarah Brady

[Standing Wolf]

...fear is likely the one cost of gun violence that the majority of us can relate to.

Leftists sincerely believe their irrational hoplophobia trumps the nation's civil rights. They're moral and intellectual parasites.

[another okie]

I feel you don't trust me.
I feel you don't value my life.
I feel you don't respect my heritage or my values.
I feel you are saying I am dangerous.
I feel you are putting me in a group with criminals.
I feel you don't appreciate my hard work to be safe with firearms.

[longeyes]

In sixty years we've gone from fear as an obstacle to overcome--FDR's "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"--to fear as a justification for bad legislation. We have created an altar for Feeling and let the worst of those rule. Pathetic.

I'd substitute this, borrowed from poster Sergeant Bob:

"When things look bad, and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta
get mean. I mean plumb mad dog mean. Cause if you lose your head and you give
up, then you neither live nor win, that's just the way it is."

~The "outlaw" Josey Wales

[longeyes]

The guiding principle for today seems to be:

If it scares you, ban it!

That way lies collapse and dishonor.

[cuchulainn]

A few years back, the Bell Campaign (old name for MMM) was encouraging people to replace such terms as "gun violence" and "gun crimes" with the term "gun trauma" because that increases the number of perceived victims.

Here's the pertinent Bell/MMM quote (on the U.S. Justice Department website ... hmm, I wonder of John Ashcroft knows his department is giving a platform for gun grabber propaganda [sarcastic rhetorical question] ;) ).

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/gun_7_2001/gun2_2_01.html

"Even those who have never encountered a gun are aware of the widespread presence of guns in our communities, witness news reports of gun-related crime, domestic murders, and high-profile shootings at schools, churches and other public places. The ever-present fear that someone we love might be killed or injured is another form of gun trauma."
—From The Bell Campaign’s
World Wide Web site at www.bellcampaign.org
The Bell Campaign is now referred to as the Million Mom March Foundation.



And how about this little gem that the Justice Department came up with all on their own:

The media coverage alone multiplies the number of persons victimized by the crime.