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A USA Today editorial against citizen disarmament is in the latest edition. It is written by Robert Farago, in defense of an armed population. It is a companion piece to the pro-disarmist piece from the USA Today editorial department. There are polls for each opinion piece. To show you the power of words, the poll for the disarmist argument is almost split, with about even numbers agree and disagree. It will not surprise you that I believe that there are many distortions and fabrications in the piece.
In Farago's response, there is the same poll, with responses from strongly agree to strongly disagree. In that poll, strongly agree gets 79% of the votes.
Here is Robert Farago's closing paragraph:
As the French terrorist attacks proved, gun control doesn’t work. Worse, civilian disarmament leaves innocent people defenseless against killers. Gun control enables — rather than prevents — homicide.
Poll results for the Second Amendment supporter, Robert Farago's response:
Strongly agree 79%
Agree 5%
Don't Know 1%
Disagree 3%
Strongly Disagree 12%
Link to the poll (left hand side) on Farago's article
Here is the summation paragraph from USA Todays article:
The work of reducing the gun carnage that has come to define America in the rest of the world will not be done quickly, but it has to begin.
Poll results for USA Today's argument for more, strict, gun laws:
Strongly agree 35%
Agree 11%
Don't Know 5%
Disagree 13%
Strongly Disagree 36%
Link to the poll (left hand side) on USA Today's article
USA Today is owned by Gannet. Gannet publications have been reliably pushing the disarmist agenda across the board. It is a sign of some balance that USA Today allows for contrary views to be carried by their publication. They are to be commended for their willingness to allow the opposition space in their publication.
Much of the debate on imposing more and more infringements on the Second Amendment, versus removing infringements imposed over the last century, comes from radically different assumptions about reality. It is my belief that the editors of USA Today are not consciously evil people. They simply have false assumptions about the nature of reality.
One of those assumptions seems to be that ordinary people cannot be trusted with firearms. Another is that governments are always beneficent and the American government could never turn against large segments of its own population.
People with false assumptions about reality cannot change them easily. They have built their entire lives based on them.
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