If Only I Had A Gun

Or If I Only Had A Gun. I could truncate this and don't expect a long discussion here, by saying drivel. Which it is.

ABC does it again. Diane Sawyer as the quintessential bearer of bad tidings performs her ignorant (or calculated) yet slick expose of the perils of gun ownership/usage.

And again, if one suffers from a lack of critical thinking, one could buy this prestidigitation. My son does not suffer in the aforementioned way. He disgustedly switched it off. I stayed to the bitter end as did my daughter and her Mom.

Put up job comes to mind when ABC staged a 'shooting scenario' taking place at a lecture hall. Nice gullible kids were recruited for 'firearms training' It wasn't.

Everyone was dressed in padded outfits including gloves. Masks I could understand for sims training, but these guys looked like Commander Cody (As usual for those who don't know who he is look it up lol).

The guy running the show was a police 'expert' who also portrayed the assailant. How convenient. He knew where the armed kid was and targeted him. The kid couldn't get his gun out right away as it tangled in his long shirt. And the kid was told the event would come down later in the 'safety' lecture. It was almost immediate. He was an airball 'champ' who had practied for hours in his back yard shooting targets with an airsoft gun. So what? Not the same as training to shoot a real gun. More on that in a minute.

Another kid suffered the same surprise. He was a target shooter who had real guns and a lot of time at the range. He was caught in the deception and surprise as the first. Long time cops I know would have had trouble with this setup.

Yet another actually hit the 'perp' in the thigh and might have done some serious damage. But again with the rigged game this girl got shot albeit with sims.

If ABC had been truly impartial they would have had an equitable scenario. I would suggest F.R.I. or Jeff Cooper's old school, Gunsite among others. Take nothing for granted and be prepared to defend oneself.

They should have pointed out that the shooters pick defenseless places/people. The shooters hardly ever 'train'. They have a low hit average. They have a common M.O. of ambush. Someone who defends themself stands a very good chance of stopping the threat because the shooters fold when confronted (Yes the Columbine guys kept going but the armed guard, a well known bad shot, at least slowed them down and folded apparently because of homemade grenades the boys had. And the cops did not go in til after the shooting ceased.). When confronted they often kill themselves if not subdued/stopped.

And the gunfire is a warning to others. If armed, students could easily have countered the killer.

Not a word about the 2 and 1/2 million times a year armed people successfully defend themselves. This includes multi victim shootings stopped by armed citizens.

The cops were touted to be almost godlike IMO at being the 'only ones' who can handle guns well and defend us. This flies in the face of the facts that cops often have little firearms experience save for the yearly quals. Yep there are some exceptional cops who know how to handle guns. I know some. But far too many are lousy shots. And the fact cops are not legally impelled to protect us.

The brother of a girl killed at Virginia Tech was given 5000 bucks and let loose at a gunshow. He bought several guns. OK. The usual weak hand involving the 'loop hole' was invoked. Most criminals don't buy at gunshows. The brother was a legal adult buying legally. Nuff said. And he turned the guns he bought over to the police. What a waste (Unless some cops got some free guns -s-.).

Kids playing with guns was touched upon. Educated kids do not. Mine don't. Sure, we see some kids playing with guns. They never received training. It was a false lead. One guy was an attempted entrapment. He refused to participate further when he realized what ABC was doing aka baiting him and his kids.

There was even a kid who entreated our 'president' to do something. This kid was just that a kid and an uminformed one at that. Oh if only they asked my kids (They wouldn't once they saw how well educated they are). I should have them ask Washington to leave us alone.

And ahem, gangbangers were interviewed. What a testament to the fact that criminals don't obey laws. And of course they would love to have our guns take away, though these s*****s weren't allowed to say that.

Arguably the most egregious statement/moment was Sawyer's statement “If you are wondering where are all the studies about the effectiveness of guns used by ordinary Americans for self-defense, well keep searching, we could not find one reliable study and the ones we found were contradictory.”

Contradictory only for her/ABC, the antifreedom mongers etc. Overwhelming evidence exists refuting this pap. John Lott, not to mention Department of Justice reports and other writings clearly document the armed people are effective in stopping crime.

Clearly put Diane Sawyer is a liar, as are all the antigun liberty crushing fools who want a nanny state.

This whole affair was like taking a rotten corpse and dressing it in a freshly tailored suit. Nice flashy try. But the end product still stinks.