Anti-Gun Media Blows Load Early on Plan to Blame Gun Owners

By Chad D. Baus
Anti-gun media blows pre-meditated plan to blame gun owners for attack at Ohio State University..

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Ohio – -(Ammoland.com)-  Gun ban extremists were so eager to pin another violent attack on your right to bear arms that they got caught blaming Ohio gun laws for what turned out to be a violent attack on The Ohio State University…. by a person armed with a car and sharp-edged tool.

It wasn’t just professional gun ban extremists like Everytown For Gun Safety/Moms Demand Action for Gunsense in America’s Shannon Watts who began dancing in the blood just a little too soon.

Consider this headline from International Business Tribune (and published by Yahoo.com), published less than two hours from the first notification of the attack:

“Ohio State Gun laws Are Some Of The Most Relaxed In The Nation

While details of the alleged shooting remained scant early Monday, reports of a heavy police and fire department presence at OSU quickly turned the nation’s interest toward Ohio’s relaxed gun laws, which currently provide some of the most lenient restrictions in selling and distributing firearms throughout the nation.”

Actually, at the time this was published so soon after the attack, the nation’s interest was still fixed on finding out what actually happened. But not IBT/Yahoo’s. Their interest was fixed on their anti-gun agenda. Given the timing of this article (which has since been updated to observe the fact that this attack had nothing whatsoever to do with firearms), it is clear the news organization likely had this report pre-written and programmed for release whenever an attack occurred. There is very likely an article like this written and waiting for every state in our country. (Save for states like California, of course, where, after the San Bernadino terror attack, the media had NOTHING to say about that state’s already restrictive [and impotent] gun control laws.)

There are, of course, NO articles now being written like this (from IBT/Yahoo edited for accuracy):

“Ohio State Gun [Motor Vehicle and Knife] laws Are Some Of The Most Relaxed In The Nation There aren’t any state requirements for permits or registration of rifles, shotguns or handguns [knives, daggers or machetes] in Ohio, and residents can carry concealed weapons [drive motor vehicles] with a permit. Background checks are not performed at Ohio gun shows [knife shows or car dealerships], and the state does not restrict the limit of weapons [cars or knives] one can purchase.”

Nor are there are any tweets from @ShannonRWatts calling for a discussion of our nation’s knife control laws.

The mainstream media should be ashamed, but we know they won’t be. Instead, just as they’ve done after the recent presidential election, they’ll just double-down again on their attack on law-abiding Americans. And this is why they have completely lost their grip on “turning the nation’s interest” to whatever they want.

Chad D. Baus is the Buckeye Firearms Association Secretary, BFA PAC Vice Chairman, and an NRA-certified firearms instructor. He is the editor of BuckeyeFirearms.org, which received the Outdoor Writers of Ohio 2013 Supporting Member Award for Best Website.

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BillyB

Yep. It’s the same headline, every time there’s another tragedy, just “fill in the blank” for state and city. It doesn’t really bother me to see and hear this ” broken record ” response and frankly hope the anti firearms ( anti anything American) elites keep up the redundancy. People have grown apathetic to the languorous drum beat and realized that it’s meaningless. Keep up the good work, sport.

MR. CHARLES

I AGREE THAT THE ANTI-GUNNERS ARE VERY QUICK ON THE TRIGGER TO BLAME LAWFUL FIREARMS AND LEGAL FIREARM OWNERS FOR THE VIOLENCE DONE ON INNOCENT PERSONS BUT THEY ALWAYS HAVE NEGLECTED ON PURPOSE TO BLAME THE PERSON THAT COMMITS THE VIOLENCE. NOT LONG AGO I SAW A STUDY THAT FOUND ONLY ONE TENTH OF ONE PERCENT (.10 OF 1%) OF PERMIT HOLDERS COMMIT A CRIME WITH A FIREARM OR OTHER LEGAL WEAPON. I ALSO KNOW THAT THE ANTI’S WILL NOT JUST LEAVE THE LAWFUL ALONE, SO THE ONLY THING TO DO IS KEEP WORKING FOR OUR RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION.

Dave Eckart

The crime rate of concealed carry holders that you cited is not for gun crimes. That rate is any crime, just as the stat for LEOs is for any crime, many of which are not gun related crimes. The rate is cited that way because one naturally assumes it is a gun related crime because those groups are legally allowed to be armed. LEOs are ten times more law-abiding than the general public, and CC holders are six times more law-abiding than LEOs.

Captain America

Why can’t these paid idiots focus on the real proble. That is the dumping of these Isis operatives in America by satans administration!? These terrorists will continue to carry out these attacks as long as tey are here and see more of their terrorist followers being brought in every day!! These idiots are only helping the terrorists by calling for more oppression of law abiding Americans. They are a prime example of the epidemic of Idi V D Amin disease in America prevelant on the commie coasts and Hollywood.!

jim

The anti-Second Amendment bunch is using the old death by a thousand cuts ideology. A bit here a bit there. It works and they know it. Ultimately–and socialists and communists know this–it works, it just takes time, and they have time on their side.

leo

All of the Anti Gun psychopaths , Leave our Constitution alone or we will strip you of it’s protections.

joe

This is just further proof, as if you needed any, that the fight against the gun grabbing Left is eternal; they will never stop and never relent. Neither can we.

Janek

The title of the post leads one to believe that the ‘gun grabbers’ suffer from “Erectile Dysfunction” in that they can never erect a firm argument that stands up. They always fall short.

darkwytemeat

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY….AND THEY ARE US!!!

Ricochet

Long time, no see, Pogo. How’s Okefenokee Swamp these days? Be careful who you let move into your neighborhood when Trump drains the swamp in D.C.

Dave in Fairfax

“Nor are there are any tweets from @ShannonRWatts calling for a discussion of our nation’s knife control laws.”
PLEASE, don’t give that idiot any more suggestions. We have enough problems already. Knife laws are nuts already in much of the country. The 2A isn’t specific to firearms.

ArtP

Background checks are performed at Ohio gun shows, but not at auto dealers.

Matt in Oklahoma

Their all or nothing ideologies are as dangerous as the attackers ideologies. Both are radical and self serving.

Ricochet

Not only that, but it’s harder to know how many lives have been lost due to restrictive laws including waiting periods, but they would never admit to one of their pet laws costing anyone’s life. There are some cases that are directly attributable to waiting periods and almost impossible to get permit laws though. They should be ashamed. To use one of their own arguments, if it even saves one life, it’s worth it. So get rid of requirements for permits and waiting periods already. We already know the gun laws don’t disarm criminals, that’s the nature of criminals, they… Read more »

Truckbuddy

Even Tim Kaine joined in the fun early, but late enough after the reports that the assailant used a knife. The shots fired were from the campus security guard, an armed citizen.

Guess Liberals can’t wait to dance in the blood of victims no matter how foolish they look later. I have to ask who are the bloodthirsty psychos?

Wild Bill

Weather you want Donald Trump to reject the idea of nominating anti-gun activist David Patraeus to the post of Secretary of State (he hates your Right to own guns so much that he teamed up with anti-gun leader Mark Kelly and his wife, Gabrielle Giffords, to co-found the Veterans Coalition for Common Sense, an anti-gun organization.) or to repeal the GCA and the NFA. Trump owes us: No Second Amendment no Second Term. [email protected].  Here is the President Elect’s email.