ABC's Anti-gun Fantasy

ABC news this morning propagated more anti-gun mania with a story that will be completed in a special tonight that completely defies logic. The contention of the report, no doubt manipulated, is that guns make you no safer and endanger your children and teens. While guns are no fail safe, when facing an armed assailant, one would obviously have a better chance of surviving the attack with access to a gun of one's own than without one. Police are not made invulnerable, even with firearms and training, but in America, police have almost invariably been armed to deter crime, protect their communities, and defend themselves. Soldiers are virtually universally armed when on patrol or duty. The Secret Service guards our presidents and other dignitaries with armed uniformed officers and plainclothes agents equipped with state of the art weaponry. This is not an abstract argument in my family-my grandfather who was a shopkeeper (and not trained as a soldier or police officer) saved himself, my grandmother, and their employees from an armed robber who fired at them and would have murdered them all, had my untrained progenitor not had ready access to a loaded revolver to quell the threat. ABC actively attempts to spread gun-banning hysteria along with much of the old-line media. As for children accessing guns-responsible adults must secure their shooting irons away from children too young to handle them (or use gun locks and store ammunition separately and inaccessible to kids) and properly train older children to respect their power and handle guns safely. The pernicious leftist press uses premises that are absolute fallacies. Do soldiers carry bouquets of roses to point at terrorists on the streets of Iraq? Do police unholster Gideon Bibles to deter felons? Guns thwart crimes everyday, but you will almost never hear the dinosaur media report this.