No Guns For Safety? Dream On, Kellermann

Oh, one more thing: Scalia's ludicrous vision of a little old lady clutching a handgun in one hand while dialing 911 with the other (try it sometime) doesn't fit the facts.

And Arthur Kellermann would know all about visions not fitting facts. For instance, his vision of citizen disarmament doesn't jibe with what he'd want for his own little old lady.

WarOnGuns readers who have been here from the start will recall the late Professor Preston Covey--those of you who don't would do well to discover him. He reminded us:

As stated by one prominent critic of defensive firearms ownership, Arthur Kellermann: "If you've got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a thirty-eight special in her hand? Yeah."
...Ann Japenga, "Would I Be Safer with a Gun?" Health March/April 1994.

And would you want her to be dialing 911 with the other, Doc?

Paul Harris, "Authorized Journalist"

A gun in a US home is 22 times more likely to be used in an accidental shooting, a murder or a suicide than in self-defence against an attack.

Nice manipulation, Paul Harris. This is a total misrepresentation of conclusions by anti-gun researcher Arthur L. Kellermann. Here's what his findings actually stated:

For every case of self-protection homicide involving a firearm kept in the home, there were 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides, and 37 suicides involving firearms.

There's a vast gulf of possibile outcomes between a DGU, which does not require a shot even being fired, and a "self-protection homicide," but the agenda-driven Paul Harris won't let his readers know that.

Tell me, Paul--when you set out to become an "authorized journalist," did you have your heart set on specializing in propaganda?

A Hazard for Whom?

Guns in homes: A health hazard [More] 

By Art "Yeah" Kellermann!

“If you’ve got to resist, you’re chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah.” (Health Magazine, March/April 1994)