Compare and Contrast

Two people writing about guns, neither being what I would call a "gun person".

First is Mayer Spivack, who writes Guns Have Three Ends. Nice attention getter, eh? Here's some of what he has to say:

We all know that guns have two ends, the pointy end, the one with the hole in it and the blunt end where the shooter is. There is really a third end on every gun, and that is what I want to point out. But to do that I will have to discuss a bit of psychology.

What follows is psychology (I guess), but it sounds to me like the same old anti-gun rhetoric dressed up with psychobabble. Stuff like this:

The pointy end deals death and pain. The blunt end is an anesthetic for the old chronic psychological pain within the shooter.

Or maybe a small wiener?

Healthy first-time gun handlers feel fear, even at the sight of a real gun.

Here's some psychobabble for ya - "projection".

Within a few minutes, even healthy people experience thoughts, memories of movies and TV, associations, and perhaps are aware of some hints of their own anger. Once the hand is accustomed to holding the gun, after perhaps five minutes (that's all it takes), then the third "point" takes effect.

In other words, the gun possess their very soul. Sheesh

The gun-holder knows that if he or she is careful where the gun is pointed, then he or she is absolutely safe and one hundred eighty degrees out of harm's way on the painless blunt end of the gun.

It figures. The only salient point in the whole piece, and it's wrapped up in anti-gun BS.


Now, here's someone else, Nancy Reyes writes on Gun control and the right of self defense. Funny how one would think this to be the anti-gun hit piece. It's not. It's a well reasoned piece with a bit of "anti-gun conversion" thrown in for good measure.

I was always in favor of gun control, at least until I was a missionary in Africa, when we noticed the criminal gangs/freedom fighters (the groups, as is usual in the third world, overlapped) started attacking missionaries, in cars, in missions, and in hospitals.

They tended to hit places with nuns, because the veils were easier to identify, and unlike the businessmen's wives, nuns didn't have security guards or pack an Uzi

Talk about your reality-based viewpoint. She covers a few more topics in that piece, go check it out.

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