Boston Globe Mommy Column Weighs in on Gun Issue
Posted by FirearmsTruth on April 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The issue of guns and children comes up a lot, but a letter to the Child Caring column in The Boston Globe clearly had an anti-gun bias. First the letter was written (and/or edited) to make it seem a bit more sensational than it needed to be:
“I have a 9-month-old daughter, and her dad and I have split up. He has a .45 and he owns rifles that he uses to go hunting. He keeps the rifles in his gun safe but has his .45 sitting in a drawer right next to the baby’s crib.”
Yes, on the surface this sounds like a bad idea. But what isn’t asked is whether the crib is next to the father’s bed as well. If that is the case it could be for a reason: Is the neighborhood safe, has the house been broken into in the past, etc.? All these are factors to why the father may want a gun at close hand, especially to protect his daughter.
The follow-up answer also has some nice bias:
“Whether this is illegal depends on two points: Is the gun licensed? Does it have a safety latch?”
If the father in question has a gun safe, goes hunting and the wife knows this is a “.45″ than we’ll have to assume the gun is legally owned and licensed. Obviously we can’t be sure, but the sound of the question implies the father knows something about guns. But this is a nice twist by the writer of the answer, throwing in a suggestion to readers that “yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus and you know guns aren’t legally owned if not licensed.” Time and time again the mainstream media loves to note the legality of firearms, but this is because we believe the MSM would like all guns to be illegal… at least in the hands of private citizens.
To the next point: what is a safety latch on a gun? Does this mean a “safety?” The answer further includes a quote from Massachusetts’s law on how a gun must be properly stored, as to give ammo to the mother a way to get her ex in trouble for having such a vial item as a “gun.” It all fits together so well that it almost makes us wonder about the very question. Couldn’t be a set up, could it?
