The Reader is De-Stigmatizing Guns
Yes, the Reader, of all papers:
Color us amazed.
- The first lesson Gerald Vernon shared with his conceal-and-carry class is, to him, the most fundamental: "The only thing that stops bad people with guns is good people with guns."
His ten students—eight men and two women, all African-Americans—were listening intently. They had gathered in a meeting room at a south-side social service center to learn about gun ownership and self-defense from Vernon, a veteran firearms instructor who was seated at the front of the room next to a table set with an array of revolvers and semiautomatic handguns from his collection.
The students didn't appear to need any convincing. "I'm interested in protection," explained Thomas Brandon, 57, when it was his turn to introduce himself. The others said they were there for the same reason.
Color us amazed.
Labels: gun issues
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
39 Comments:
Guns are pure evil. They cause grief, death and mayhem. Their insidious allure will take over your mind and body. I went into a gun store once. I was surrounded by guns and could feel them calling out to me. I wanted to reach out grab one and start shooting. Thankfully I had enough self control to run out of the store and never get near an evil gun again.
Interestingly, The Reader is THE MOST trustworthy publication in Chicago. They have repeatedly proven to be unimpressed with the political powers that be and print more truth than can be found anywhere around this sewer of a city run by the political crime family's for decades.
it was a good read
" The law is far, the fist is near ".
Korean proverb.
The Reader article presented and acknowledged a reality that most Libtards refuse to accept and that is that many responsible Minority citizens are the citizens who favor gun ownership. When everything falls in place it will be interesting to see how many take advantage of CCW legislation. Politics is one thing, survival another. History has shown a desire to disarm black citizens in the history of the South post Reconstruction,but history is ignored. Remember, it was the Democrat Party that fought Civil Rights legislation well into the 1960's but it is lost on the black sheep who vote lock-step for Democrats.
Guns are pure evil. They cause grief, death and mayhem....
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I know how you feel.
True story. I owned a Revolutionary War musket carried by George Washington as he crossed the Delaware. I kept it under my bed.
One night it worked its way out, aimed itself at my head and shot me in the face while I slept. It wasn't even loaded!
After I recovered a gun expert from the city told me I was lucky to be alive because this gun was actually an "assault rifle" that was particularly prone to going after children. He also said they were looking into charging me federally for merely talking about it.
I sold it to the city for $100 during a buyback. I was never happier. I donated the money to NPR.
I feel much safer these days now that the city has tripled my taxes, legalized dope and confiscated these dangerous implements of mass destruction.
It's all true. I too have walked into a gun store and saw a particular firearm, that I just had to have, so there goes some of my hard earned money. It is like an addiction. It starts with buying a firearm, than another. Next thing you know you find yourself doing your own ammunition reloading and spending your weekends at shooting matches. Where does it end?
unarmed citizenry=tyranny
Ronald Regan says,
If Marky Mark Donahue and his Flunky Bunch Citywide team win, I'm gonna roll over.
There is a word for people that have a gun phobia, but I can't remember what it is.
"This is actually a well written, even-handed, unbiased piece about guns. In the Reader. In Chicago."
Actually not surprising.
While The Reader caters to the lakefront liberal, gay market, their writers actually practice what has become a dead art in Chicago. Fair, unbiased (relatively) reporting.
I believe it was referred to as "JOURNALISM".
They take on topics that the ScumTimes and Fibune won't or can't touch because of fear of displeasing the Great Rahmulous. And losing their priviledge of using the indoor toilet at City Hall. And being allowed to hear him up close.
@12:21 am.
Funny, every time I go to a gun store I want to grab all of them too...but not to just start shootin' folks.
Signed, NAC (not a cop)
Don"t forget the reader was the FIRST newspaper to indorse JIMMY CARTER for persident way back when. I don't trust them and believe there will be more to this article.
JSS (retired CPD
Hey SCC, Google Kevin Kilmer. He is an anti-gun candidate for FOP VP. Speaks out for tougher gun laws at City rallies. He is a Rahm guy, through and through. Please post this so coppers know who they are voting for. Kilmer = Pfleger
A. The photo of the neatly stripped and gleaming M1911 is an image that your street mutt will never see in their lives. Can you imagine?
B. The comments actually work. Not like at the Tribune/Facebook.
Good, fair, calm, reasonable, nicely detailed story.
"Guns are pure evil. They cause grief, death and mayhem. Their insidious allure will take over your mind and body. I went into a gun store once. I was surrounded by guns and could feel them calling out to me. I wanted to reach out grab one and start shooting. Thankfully I had enough self control to run out of the store and never get near an evil gun again."
2/03/2014 12:21:00 AM
Thank you for that observation Barack, you may go to the head of the class as usual.
Guns save lives...Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns!
MS
Dear Possessed (12:21:00 AM):
Thanks for your opinion - and although I disagree, I'm grateful for your right to express your views via the 1st Amendment?
On a similar note, I am also grateful for the 2nd Amendment that protects my right to own firearms - whether as protection in the wilds of this big bad City or the quiet peace of a hunt.
(Love me some venison)
We are so blessed to live in America.
Someone has to it rham won't Obama won't people know you have to fight w/fire. No pun intended.
(OT) Clean slate team thanks for coming to roll call with no answers, you really showed how you are a fop starter
Kit, sorry we can't go years being your FTO we tried with shields at least Doherty came up and learned with rahm in office no more do overs no more pass go many votes maybe odds maker could chime in will be bill-graham-dimaria-Davis in top positions! How about a debate the top 4 but then again men would do it but guess not!
Oh rahm you josh ! Or is this richie?
Just read this online:
'Political prankster Mark Dice has once again documented how many young Americans are completely disconnected from reality, capturing California college students signing a fake petition to imprison all legal gun owners in concentration camps and even to have them executed.'
Honestly this is a sad reflection on the education that we are giving our young.
Silly Lib.
Like that The Reader has such a well balanced article – I usually read it for another view – sometimes thought provoking, most of the time fun. Its writers target a youthful audience that has little/no experience with real life. A very naïve lot.
That said, I’m wondering what kind of bizzaro world the first poster lives in that s/he is so emotionally distraught about an inanimate object. Now, THAT’s scary. Hope s/he takes that self control straight to a shrink to explore why / how objects can be evil … kinda weird.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Guns are pure evil. They cause grief, death and mayhem. Their insidious allure will take over your mind and body. I went into a gun store once. I was surrounded by guns and could feel them calling out to me. I wanted to reach out grab one and start shooting. Thankfully I had enough self control to run out of the store and never get near an evil gun again.
but you do know......there about somewhere between 270 and 300 million firearms in the USA.....(with more to come?).....so....what then?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Don"t forget the reader was the FIRST newspaper to indorse JIMMY CARTER for persident way back when. I don't trust them and believe there will be more to this article.
JSS (retired CPD
Times have changed since dinosaurs roamed the earth. So have editorial staffs.
"A man who teaches his wife to shoot is a fool." A Sicilian Proverb.
I have a feeling that if I taught my 8 or 10 year old to shoot on Granma's "Back40" and it somehow got leaked to their teachers DCFS would be knocking on our door late one night. In that case they would be refused all entry to my home and no questions would be answered in the most polite way.
I would first be sure that my kids told no one and didn't post anything about our little adventure on Facebook or anywhere else.
In a sharp break with New York’s crime-fighting policies of the last decade, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton has told his top chiefs that he intends to fundamentally alter a program that sent waves of rookie officers into crime-ridden neighborhoods,..
...Mr. Bratton said that rather than thrusting inexperienced officers into dangerous or highly charged situations, part of a program called Operation Impact, he envisioned a return to a more traditional approach in which rookies would first be placed in local precincts.
“I want to change the dynamic of kids coming out of the academy and immediately being put into Operation Impact assignments, where they really have an almost single-minded focus and really don’t get a full flavor of the job,” he said, according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by The New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/nyregion/bratton-tells-chiefs-hell-stop-sending-rookies-to-high-crime-areas.html?hpw&rref=nyregion
At today's retiree luncheon, the fat lady was heard singing, while Daugherty was speaking. You can stick a fork in the Shitty Wide team, they're done!
I have a feeling that the "evenhanded" tone of the article has something to do with the gun owners being black. It's the sort of article that would have come gushing forth from all the "liberal" news organs if, for example, George Zimmerman had been black and Trayvon Martin had been white. It has nothing to do with guns, per se, or the truth - it has everything to do with the narrative that the news organ can buy into.
It also reinforces the much-reinforced idea that, hey, this has nothing to do with black people - look, black people are fed up too.
With all the blogging and email blasts from agular, Dougherty, Geiger, and the rest of the Cutywide team, thought it would be a good time for a refresher blog:
You guys remember this:
Hi Rich!
Just so you know, people often type in our e-mail address to your forms so they don't have to give a real e-mail address to the FOP log-in screen. That isn't really us writing to you, so when you write back to us critiquing us for being anonymous, you look like an ignoramus.
We have an alternate address we use to send you e-mails and questions, most of which go unanswered for some reason.
Please remember, we gave you guys pretty much free rein in our comment sections last campaign season to tout a whole bunch of promises that seem to have fallen by the wayside. That mistake won't be repeated during your re-election run.
Now please be quiet before we have to reveal to the readers how you guys had an entire website designed for tens of thousands of dollars and then dumped it in favor of another pay site run by a connected cousin of the board who builds websites for a bunch of democratic candidates endorsed by the FOP. What did that cost the membership? $30,000? $45,000? Or more?
Who do you think you are, Mike Madigan? And you guys want to complain about Greg Bella
It is great to see that law abiding citizens are getting the right to legally carry guns and protect themselves and their families. Too bad that retired police officers have to jump through hoops to get paperwork signed and then pay yearly and re-qualify yearly to get IROCC. Just as bad is that Duty Disabled police officers can't carry a gun to protect themselves and when they retire honorably certain person's at the pension board want to play God and see to it that their IROCC paperwork never gets approved. Great how only in Chicago and the CPD can honorably retired officers and duty disabled officers be treated like shit even by some of their fellow officers. Wait a minute I guess that's no different than the way we get treated while we are on the job.
I know that the federal law says retired must qualify every year but check out other states and you will find that retired officers don't have to pay for re-qualification and get their paperwork signed by their department not the pension board. Check out the Lt's associations website and read where the Lt's aren't signing the paperwork and saying it's the pension boards responsibility. This city and CPD can't do anything right and just as always are openly allowed to violate our rights.
Thousands of CCL applications in just the first month. The liberals are fuming that Americans can exercise their Constitutional rights in such a manner within their socialist stronghold.
Piss off a liberal. Get your family into a CCL class today!
The second amendment is not needed until such time that they may seek to repeal it. Thomas Jefferson
Anonymous said...
Someone has to it rham won't Obama won't people know you have to fight w/fire. No pun intended.
2/03/2014 02:35:00 PM
Sober up before you post a comment.
Anonymous said...
Don"t forget the reader was the FIRST newspaper to indorse JIMMY CARTER for persident way back when. I don't trust them and believe there will be more to this article.
JSS (retired CPD
2/03/2014 11:47:00 AM
His first run or reelection?
The Reader may be right on this one. But always remember, they are no friend of the police.
When they publish a story about the crime rates and the demographics most responsible for it, then maybe I will give the Reader a second look.
The Reader astonished my partner and myself by contacting us to do a feature about her: a sponsored, semi-professional action pistol competitor and full-time firearms instructor.
She initially declined the request for the interview but caved after the writer persisted.
The result came out last spring and featured a picture of her in the firing position with her full-custom Canyon Creek 1911 .40 cal.
I can't imagine how many heads exploded that week in Lincoln Park and surrounds when they opened to that page.
If the link works, here it is:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/td-roe-guns-excel-training-lemont-illinois/Content?oid=10586442
I might add Dr. G., as he likes to be called, is a dear friend of ours in the instruction business and we are proud to share a range with him.
He's competed in our indoor IDPA matches, cane and all, with his G23 and is highly skilled.
The Reader, despite them being hard left, does put out good pieces. Dumke and Ben Javorsky are two of this city's most solid journos. Admittedly it's a low bar to top when you have limpdick people at the Tribune/Suntimes who just take what they're given and run with it.
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