{"id":190591,"date":"2023-05-10T11:56:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=179306"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:29:27","slug":"journalist-jill-filipovic-wants-to-talk-honestly-about-guns-okay-heres-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/journalist-jill-filipovic-wants-to-talk-honestly-about-guns-okay-heres-the-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Jill Filipovic Wants to Talk Honestly About Guns… Okay, Here’s the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jill Filipovic, a New York-based journalist, argues for stricter gun laws in a new CNN<\/em> op-ed. (Photo: CNN<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jill Filipovic is a New York-based journalist who appears to be pro-gun control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent op-ed <\/a>published by CNN<\/em> Filipovic argues that those of us who defend the 2A are being intellectually dishonest about our position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She contends we don\u2019t fully recognize the downsides of a Constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms and that by resisting efforts to restrict the 2A we are complicit in the death of America\u2019s children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filipovic writes: <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Gun proponents need to be honest: If they believe that the costs of lax gun laws \u2013 endemic gun violence, mass death, guns as the leading killer of American children \u2013 are a worthwhile tradeoff for the vast right for just about anyone in America to own as many deadly weapons as they like with little regulation, that is their prerogative. This is America, after all, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But they should stand behind their principles, accept the facts and argue on the merits. And they may have to accept that their principles are not held by most Americans that most of us will choose life and safety over nearly unlimited rights to weaponry and the mass violence and death that come as a result.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are so many half-truths, lies, and omissions within her piece it\u2019s hard to know where to start.  But, I\u2019ll pick out just five.  And if she\u2019s really interested in productive dialogue between the two camps, she’d address these points one by one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claim: “Guns Are the Leading Killer of American Children<\/strong>“<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I recently wrote an article<\/a> responding to this claim.  It\u2019s misleading, to say the least.  Guns aren\u2019t<\/em> the leading killer of American \u201cchildren.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, unless you believe 18 and 19-year-old adults are \u201cchildren\u201d and that children under 1 don\u2019t count as \u201cchildren.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s correct.  Gun-control advocates have manipulated the data to reach this tendentious conclusion.  Ms. Filipovic can read my article on the subject or she can check out what Snopes.com <\/a>had to say on the subject. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But either way, one can\u2019t make that claim without \u201csome clarifications,\u201d as Snopes puts it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Claim: “The Research on this Question is Thorough and It Couldn\u2019t Be Clearer: American Gun Violence is a Result of Loose American Gun Laws.<\/strong>“<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What research?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that many of the research that gun-control advocates cite is deeply flawed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d invite Ms. Filipovic to watch this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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