First, from Australia, in response to the State's Director of Prosecution's call for a total gun ban in South Australia ("Enough is Enough"); an interview with Samantha Lee of the National Coalition for Gun Control.
Quotes:
"After the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, the Howard Government and the states and territories banned all semi-automatic long arms. But they did not extend that ban to semi-automatic hand-guns. Now we've seen some great benefits from the ban of semi-automatic long arms. We've seen a reduction in firearms deaths in Australia, and hospitalizations and suicides. So we'd like to see that ban extended to semi-automatic handguns."
(Interviewer: "Just how feasible is it for a total ban?")
S.Lee: "Well what we would like to see is the total ban of semi-automatic weapons."
S.Lee: "We'd like to take it by stages, and if we can get rid of the most powerful weapons, which are the semi-automatic weapons, we'd be very happy with that."
[Geek: Yes, you would be 'very happy with that' ... for now. It's disingenuous, which is the same thing as a bald-faced lie, to imply that your only target is to ban semi-automatic firearms in the same breath in which you admit that your goal is to 'take it by stages'. You must hold law-abiding firearms owners in extreme contempt to be so obvious in your lies.]
(Interviewer: "So what are the 'semi-automatics', everybody talks about a 'semi-automatic' -- I just have no idea".)
S.Lee: "Well, Semi-automatic means that it just flows so very quickly, so you puta magazine chamber into the firearm, and you press the trigger once, and it propels a number of bullets in a number of minutes. ..."
[Geek: this is an obvious attempt to confuse the listener/reader when you lump semi-automatic weapons in the same definition as full-automatic weapons. Ms. Lee obviously holds the listener/reader in the same contempt as she does legal firearms owners. Who could fall for this lie?]
(Interviewer: "As opposed to just one bullet at a time".)
S.Lee: "That's right. Now sporting shooters will argue that they need semi-automatics to do their sport. Now, that's not true. .... Now what we would like to see is ban all semi-automatic handguns, and what that means is that sporting shooters can have single-shot firearms to do their sport.
(Interviewer: "When you see ... the Olympics, those aren't semi-automatics, are they?")
S.Lee: "They don't need semi-automatics for Olympic or commonwealth (?) game shooting. Now when you think about sporting shooting, it's about hitting a target. It's not about how powerful you hit the target, so it's about your precision in hitting the target."
Geek: DVC obviously means nothing to a spokesman who doesn't understand the people or the sports she dismisses so casually.]
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The second interview is much more simplistic ... and perhaps not quite such a subtle (read: "Misleading") statement on Gun Control on an MSNBC "Hardball" interview of NRO's Deroy Murdock by Chris Mathews.
In response to the Mathews' question, "Do you think we should have a Concealed Gun law in New York", Murdock says "Yes, I think that would probably be helpful. There are people who do conceal guns here, and to the degree that people think criminals may be retaliated on I think that that helps keep the place safe."
where Mathews asserts:
"I think they should check people on sidewalks like they do people on airplanes, and why Americans think an airplane should be safer than an American sidewalk is crazy to me. ... I want to see people disarmed. I want people disarmed in our major cities. How's that for a plan? I don't think we should all be armed, and I don't think more firearms is the answer. I think that it's wacky to say that the solution to armed robbery and killing in our streets is to put more arms in the streets. ..."
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