Toby Hoover, executive director of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, lamented the incongruity between rampant gun purchases and his sense of the holiday spirit: "I'm bothered by, especially at the holiday time, how many people think that these things ought to be holiday gifts, Christmas gifts for their families and their children. We're seeing more of that, which means it's becoming sort of an accepted thing. Firearms and weapons don't seem to go with holiday and peacefulness to me. I think we have a problem." [More]Yeah, Sarah. Stop upsetting Toby. What kind of creature would get her kid a gun as a gift, anyway?
[Via Geordan]
"...becoming an accepted thing..."? As though it's a new and strange development?
ReplyDeleteBefore all this socialist anti-gun crap started in the early '60s, giving guns as Christmas gifts was as natural as Lionel trains.
I got my first shotgun for my 11th birthday in 1966. It's normal among people that aren't hoplophobes. I gave my grandson a shotgun when he turned 13. His family is still alive, imagine that, he didn't go on a killing spree.
ReplyDeleteThe media PSH isn't new either, as demonstrated by this Dragnet program which they did both for radio and TV.
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