Baltimore Sun Editor: Licensed Gun Owners Scare Me
More Than Gun-Toting Criminals
by AWR Hawkins 8 Jan 2016
On January 7, Baltimore
Sun deputy editorial page editor Tricia Bishop penned a column in
which she explained that licensed gun owners scare her more than gun-toting
criminals.
Her central justification for this position is that she
lives in a part of Baltimore where she can’t be reached by the poor blacks who
are shooting one another in other parts of town, but she occasionally hears
stories about law-abiding citizens who wear guns
on their hips for self-defense while they are in their own yards. The
justification is not congruent, but it’s the one Bishop provided.
Bishop
approached this quagmire by describing the trepidation she feels
when driving through Georgia to see her parents. During the drive, she passed
“billboards… along I-81 boasting guns for sale,” and once she arrived, her
brother-in-law, “who lives in Florida, told of a neighbor stopping by to shoot
the breeze in his suburban driveway, a handgun holstered at the man’s waist as
their kids played nearby.”
Bishop confessed:
I’m less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in
Baltimore, I declared as we discussed the issue, than I am by those permitted
gun owners. I know how to stay out of the line of Baltimore’s illegal gunfire;
I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city
that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by
“the game.” The closest I typically get to the action is feeling the chest-thumping
vibrations of the Foxtrot police helicopter flying overhead in pursuit of
someone who might be a few streets over, but might as well be a world away. But
I don’t know where the legal gun owners are or how to ensure that their
children, no matter how well versed in respecting firearms, won’t one day
introduce that weapon to my daughter.
So, Bishop is asking Obama to take executive action to create a
public registry of gun owners so she can check to see if the parents of her
daughter’s friends own guns.
Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Sun
is a subsidiary of the Tribune
Publishing Co.
Note: David D. Hiller
was the SVP for the Tribune Publishing
Co., the president of the Tribune
Interactive, the SVP for the Tribune
Media Co., the publisher & president & CEO for the Chicago Tribune, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, and is a member of
the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP,
and an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
David A. Hamburg
is the president emeritus for the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Warren E. Buffett
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
John
J. Mack is an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety, and was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
George
Soros was a benefactor for
the Harlem Children's Zone, and the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the International Rescue Committee.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign,
and a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
David D. Hiller
was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, the
publisher & president & CEO for the Chicago Tribune, the president of the Tribune Interactive, the SVP for the Tribune Media Co., the SVP for the Tribune Publishing Co., and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Baltimore Sun
is a subsidiary of the Tribune
Publishing Co.
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Warren E. Buffett
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
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