Liberals claim to be open minded, yet they only invite people who agree with them.
March 27, 2014 — Tom Diaz, former NRA member turned gun-control advocate, will speak next month at Santa Monica College, where one of the deadliest shooting sprees in the bayside city’s history last summer came to an end.
Diaz’s talk, “The Gun Business: How We Can Change Policies That Kill,” will take place in the Humanities & Social Science building, around the corner from the library, where last summer, police gunned down a young shooter, ending a rampage that left six dead.
“Diaz is a former National Rifle Association (NRA) member, gun enthusiast, and competitive shooter who became a strong advocate for stricter gun control in the United States after researching gun legislation while working as a Congressional staffer, and interviewing victims of gun violence,” college officials said.
He “has written numerous research papers and articles on the proliferation and easy availability of firearms in the United States, and their impact on crime, death, and injury,” officials said. “A prominent speaker on the gun industry and gun control issues, he has appeared on numerous television and radio shows.”
The question of gun control has been a hot topic in Santa Monica over the years, most recently after June 7, 2013 when 24-year-old John Zawahri stormed onto campus with a semi-automatic rifle.
Zawahri killed his brother and father before heading to SMC’s campus where he killed three more people before being gunned down by police himself.
In the days following, one more person was killed and two wounded in unrelated shootings. (“Recent Spate of Shootings Break Long Peace in Santa Monica,” June 12, 2013)
Santa Monica’s congressional representative Henry Waxman convened a summit, which was held at City Hall, on gun safety following the events.
“The result of this summit was a bill sponsored by the Congressman, to reduce access to the types of weapons used on June 7,” according to a City-issued report on the events released this week.
Diaz’s lecture will be held at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, April 3, in Room 165 of the SMC Humanities & Social Science building on the main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica.
Seating is on a first-arrival basis. For more information, call .
Since liberals like protesting at our events, I suggest we do the same. Are there any pro-gun people in Los Angeles? Got nothing to do at 11:15 am? Make your voice heard.
By the way, Paul M. Barrett, a liberal Bloomberg Businessweek writer, admits Diaz is wrong about many things:
Violent crime is down. Diaz accurately describes how the firearm industry has increased the potential lethality of many civilian weapons by marketing large-capacity ammunition magazines. Then he asserts that “these more powerful guns have enabled new levels of gun violence to crest.” The problem with the latter claim is that since the early 1990s, when Glock and other manufacturers pioneered the large-capacity vogue, violent crime rates (including gun homicide rates) have fallen dramatically in the U.S.
The gun lobby is still strong. Diaz argues that “the once-impregnable gun lobby has become a ‘paper tiger.’” In the wake of the December 2012 Newtown (Conn.) elementary school massacre, it’s true that gun-rights groups have not been able to stop states such as New York and, more recently, Colorado, from moving toward tougher firearm regulation. However, the NRA’s deterioration has been greatly exaggerated. Just ask the U.S. Senate Democrats who are struggling to get even modest gun control provisions out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the floor for a vote. And then there’s the Republican-controlled House of Representatives. Concern about displeasing the NRA remains a major factor in the Washington gun debate. Asserting otherwise seems naive, at best.
The NRA doesn’t take orders. “The NRA’s legislative program,” Diaz maintains, “is largely driven by the gun industry’s business interests.” This contention has gained currency in gun control circles among advocates eager to identify their adversaries with shadowy corporate conspiracy, as opposed to, say, contrary ideas. The relationship between the NRA and the gun industry is complicated. The idea, however, that Smith & Wesson (SWHC) or Glock tells the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre what to say is fanciful.
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-14/what-gun-control-advocate-tom-diaz-gets-wrong-in-his-new-book
Perhaps Diaz left the NRA because he discovered lying is more fun than telling the truth, but liberals like Barrett have something rarely seen in the liberal media today, integrity. Barrett probably supports gun control, but he does not support lying even if lying helps his agenda.
Gun control is political suicide, Obama hates guns, no doubts about it, but if he had been as loud as Bloomberg he would have never gotten elected president.
If we had run real pro-gun candidates instead of McCain and Romney, Obama would have lost.
People like Tom Diaz and insecure little men, why did he turned against the NRA? Because he wanted to be famous, he wanted attention, the liberal media turned against John Stossel when he became a pro-gun libertarian, the liberal and Big Academia embrace turncoats when they turn their way.
