Delete Data- Start Trek Actor Hates Guns.

Breitbart reports that “Brent Spiner, best known for playing the inquisitive robot Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, apparently doesn’t think the Second Amendment matters any more.”

Here’s a sampling of his recent twitter messages on the subject of guns:

RT @tonybalogna: He just thinks all gun owners dangerous by default.–I believe anyone with a gun in their hand is dangerous. My opinion.

RT @DevonMScott: I’ll second you on no more shootings. As for no more guns… –if you’re not going to shoot them, why do you need them?

So…read my Twitter feed. Which one of these “good guys”, and there are many, would you feel comfortable with them owning a gun? Or safe?
Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/11/08/star-trek-actor-gun-owners-dangerous

 

Actors aren’t famous for being logical, they don’t listen to statistics but feelings. If anyone with “a gun in their hand” is dangerous why don’t we have massacres at the gun range? Besides, 99.99% of the time the gun isn’t in the hand, it’s in the holster.

If I have a gun in my hand I’m either cleaning it, moving it, or getting ready to shoot it. I’m one of the good guys, and the only people that will be in danger from me are criminals trying to rob me, beat me, or murder me.

The Mild West.

Liberals use the “wild west” argument every time we want to pass a pro-gun law, and let’s face it, westerns would not be popular without a the shootouts and the violence. But fiction is fiction and facts are facts, and according to Hollon’s, Frontier Violence: Another Look, the wild west was pretty mild.

  • In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and
    Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides.  This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year.
  • In
    Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.

Zooming forward over a century to 2007, a quick look at Uniform Crime Report statistics shows us the following regarding the aforementioned gun control “paradise” cities of the east:

  • DC – 183 Murders (31 per 100,000 residents)
  • New York – 494 Murders (6 per 100,000 residents)
  • Baltimore – 281 Murders (45 per 100,000 residents)
  • Newark – 104 Murders (37 per 100,000 residents)

Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/dispelling-the-myth-of-the-wild-west