09-16-2005, 03:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2005, 03:48 PM by Zarathustra.)
The clip of the elderly woman was linked on their website solely to tug on the ol' heartstrings and get people pissed off. It had only a tangential relationship to the issue of the confiscation of guns in New Orleans. The issue in that clip was whether or not the police should be allowed to use force to remove people that did not want to leave.
Notice there is also a cut in the film before the actual "tackle". Did she brandish the gun as if to fire? Did she set it down and they tackled her anyway? We don't know. If anything, this clip serves to muddy the waters of the issue.
I'm with you in that firearms should not be confiscated from those who have commited no crimes and are in every right to possess them, especially with what we've seen of looting in New Orleans. But at the same time, the addition of this clip on the gun owners website seems as much a media ploy as those concerning them.
It will serve them in getting a few more folks riled up.
Edit/Addition: After finishing reading through the GOA website, I see that their issue is twofold, whereas the thread here is not. I can see why they added the clip to the site, but still feel it does nothing for the discussion of gun confiscations.
Notice there is also a cut in the film before the actual "tackle". Did she brandish the gun as if to fire? Did she set it down and they tackled her anyway? We don't know. If anything, this clip serves to muddy the waters of the issue.
I'm with you in that firearms should not be confiscated from those who have commited no crimes and are in every right to possess them, especially with what we've seen of looting in New Orleans. But at the same time, the addition of this clip on the gun owners website seems as much a media ploy as those concerning them.
It will serve them in getting a few more folks riled up.
Edit/Addition: After finishing reading through the GOA website, I see that their issue is twofold, whereas the thread here is not. I can see why they added the clip to the site, but still feel it does nothing for the discussion of gun confiscations.
See you in Town,
-Z
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