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September 22, 2007
Support for the Second Amendment? In Philadelphia?
This week's Philadelphia City Paper (a leftish alternative weekly) has an editorial about guns. Yes, I know what you're already thinking. ("Here goes Eric with another lengthy diatribe about the complete stranglehold that the anti-gun mentality holds on all of Philadelphia's newspapers.") If you're thinking along such lines, you can stop right there! Because this editorial is not the usual tripe to which I've become so sadly accustomed. In fact, it's so out-of-the-ordinary that I had to read the piece twice to verify that it wasn't carefully dissembled satire pretending to take the side of the "gun nuts" only to reveal the sarcasm in the last sentence. Michael Washburn (not a token gun nut they're indulging this one time, but a regular writer and editor at Philadelphia City Paper) piece is titled "On the Defensive -- If we ban guns, only the criminals will be armed," and it's as serious and articulate a defense of the Second Amendment as I have ever seen anywhere (least of all in Philadelphia newspapers). Washburn begins by relating two accounts of successful home self defense incidents -- one involving a 79-year-old man who shot two burglars, and the other involving a woman who managed to successfully free herself from captivity, get hold of her gun and shoot two invaders bent on robbing and raping her and a female houseguest: Cases like the two above illustrate the essential role of guns in protecting people who are physically no match for the aggressors, or who are confronting criminals possessing guns illegally. Cases within just the past few weeks -- listed online at the Civilian Gun Self-Defense Blog and in local media outlets around the country -- could fill every page of this City Paper.A wonderful, amazing piece. My hat's off to the Philadelphia City Paper. Is it too much to hope that this editorial might help empower closeted Second Amendment sympathizers at the Philadelphia Inquirer? posted by Eric on 09.22.07 at 10:53 AM |
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If the left in Phila doesn't "disappear him" his next editorial should be on what's going on in England vis a vis gun bans & self defense.