A Further Question for Kim Ode

My first piece on your editorial today focused on your side's attempt to have it both ways - to denigrate and insult the law-abiding gun owner, and yet to expect your probing questions about firearms not to be taken as threats and insults.

But OK, let's get beyond that. I'll extend an olive branch. The goal here is to save kids' lives from accidents (which, by the way, have been dropping fast); while you say "Thousands" die per year from firearms accidents, the figures are more like...:

In 2002, there were 762 such deaths nationally, including 60 among children. Today, the odds are more than a million to one against a child in the U.S. dying from a firearm accident.

So I'd suggest you find better sources for your articles...

...but again, I'm extending an olive branch, here. Let's get together, you and I, Kim, and do something about gun accidents.

I'll support Lori Riley's outreach to parents (even though it's supported by Citizens for a Supine "Safer" Minnesota, a loathsome group that has slandered me as a member of the group of law-abiding gun owners for years). And you use your platform to support the NRA's "Eddie Eagle" program, which is the most effective in-school education program anywhere for teaching kids how to act around firearms, in Minnesota schools.

I mean, it is about saving kids, right?

Give me a call, Kim Ode. Perhaps we could both learn a lot.

Posted by Mitch at June 22, 2005 06:46 PM | TrackBack