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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (153816)1/10/2011 3:36:38 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 542979
 
I have never seen a NYTimes op-ed piece that was friendly to civil gun ownership. Just today an excerpt was posted here in which a NYT writer equated "sane" gun policy with restriction. There was another that advocated restricting the "instruments of intolerance", which I read as another dissent in re gun ownership.

If you're willing to allow "purposed" gun ownership for hunting, am I right in inferring that you don't consider using or carrying a gun (necessarily a handgun) for protection of self against attackers?
Most law enforcement officers, especially their trade organizations, are consistently for gun ownership restrictions. It only makes sense because it makes their constituents' lives less dangerous.

There was nothing unusual or sinister about Loughner's gun - it was a garden-variety autopistol of a kind favored by police and security personnel. I would raise an eyebrow at the argument that such a gun is too [adjective] for ordinary gun owners.
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