Chuck Hoffman Rebuts Sacramento Bee Writer Over Gun Violence Claims

We take aim at the mainstream media a lot. So we do like to point out those times when someone actually takes a similar stance regarding anti-gun bias. Chuck Hoffman offered a guest commentary for The Oakland Tribune, firing back at Sacramento Bee writer Dan Morain.

Hoffman notes something that most anti-gun groups, and many in the MSM would like you not to know or think about too closely:

“It is a mistake to equate lower gun crime statistics to restrictive firearms laws. The two areas of the country with the highest rates of gun crime are Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Ill. It is no coincidence that these two areas have the most restrictive firearms laws in the nation.”

And yet Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley and others in law enforcement continue to find ways to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, as if it will somehow make criminals think twice about picking up a gun.

Kudos to Hoffman for putting the record straight, and we encourage our readers to check out what he has to say. He makes some excellent points on the issue of guns and crime.

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