Wednesday, March 31, 2010

An article that gets it all wrong!

The Chattanooga Times-Free Press just published an article that was so far out of touch with reality, I begin to wonder why anybody purchases that paper.

Link.

Let me debunk some of my "favorite" quotes of that article:

"Guns are banned in Chattanooga parks, and police say that helped avoid further problems in a weekend shooting at Coolidge Park that injured five people."
- Actually, the fact that guns were banned is the reason why the CRIMINALS were daring enough to fire at the people... they knew those people were unarmed!

"'I don’t even want to imagine what would have happened,' Chattanooga police Chief Freeman Cooper said of permitted gun owners being allowed to carry weapons in the park."
- Yeah, right. We might have had somebody actually shoot the bad guys and stop the senseless attack. More likely, these CRIMINALS would not have targeted the group of people in the first place, if they knew there might be people legally carrying in the park.

"Good guys and bad guys don’t wear signs saying who they are, police said."
- And where were the police when the shooting was going on??? Oh, yeah... that's right... they hadn't arrived yet!

In Soddy-Daisy permit holders are allowed to carry a concealed handgun in parks. Mayor Gene Shipley voted for the measure, and he said if criminals think other weapons might be present they’ll be less likely to use their own weapons."
- Mayor Gene Shipley is at the top of my list for most any office he seeks in the future. He is the one source of sanity in this crazy article.

NOTE: Take a look at the comments if you want to see some people with some common sense!

... special thanks to Research assistant "Feminine" in the Chattanooga area for this one!

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