Liars lie. More große Lüge.
List of reasons people got shot last month makes grim reading
Parents Against Gun Violence summarised news reports as if they had been written in the first person voice, to underline how pointless these reasons are for death or serious injury.
“Quote:” A guest at my son’s New Year’s Eve party got drunk and wouldn’t leave, so I shot him dead.
Reality: There was a fight. The aggressor refused to leave, and was shot in self-defense. The defender was not charged.
“Quote:” Some guy dinged my door in a parking lot and we started arguing about it. We both had guns, so I shot him first.
Reality: “Victim” dinged a guy’s car, and they did get into an argument. “Victim” tried to draw a gun, so defender drew his and fired. Judge threw out the case, and the defender was released.
“Quote:” I accidentally ran over a dog with my car. The guy who owned the dog was really mad about it and was yelling at me, so I shot him dead.
Reality: Self defense; no charges filed.
“Parents Against Violence” — or “Parents Against Gun Violence”?* This brilliant example of große Lüge urinalism gives both versions of the group name — is pulling the standard trick of intermingling criminal use of firearms with justified self defense. They want you to equate defense with murder. All the better to manipulate the ill-informed into supporting “sensible gun laws.”
We have facts. They have disingenuous fake “quotes.”
But look which Metro published.
Edited to add footnote.
* While there is a “Parents Against Violence,” that is an Alabama-based group that doesn’t seem to be related to this. This list of “quotes” appears to have been lifted from the Facebook page of “Parents Against Gun Violence.”
When truth supports our right to protect ourselves then all the opponents have to argue with is lies and half truths.
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.” Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr, 1785
I have learned that if I tell the truth, I only have one version to remember. Those whose habit is to lie, have many versions to remember. So anyone who is actually watching merely has to wait and it quickly becomes apparent that they are being lied to. The problem is that so few are actually watching.