Cowboy Confessional

Possessing an insane depth of knowledge concerning gun control, as evidenced by any years of publishing the Gun Facts e-book, I’m alerted (often against my will) to the words and misdeeds of gun control advocates and other people of limited IQ.

An instance of this occurred last week when a gentleman named Zach Marks posted a piece on the now intellectually suspect Huffington Post.  I don’t know Zach, but suspect he comes from a good family and is otherwise devoid of unsavory behaviors.  In his blog he attributed the drop in violent crime during the 1990s to Brady Law and the lapsed assault weapons ban (which Zach mistakenly amalgamated into one piece of legislation).  I can’t blame Zach for coming to this conclusion because cum hoc ergo propter hoc errors are common when research is lacking.  Thus I have no bone with Zach, for even elected officials and other criminals are suspect to this logic trap.

My accusation lies with the scoundrels within the editorial bowls of the Huffington Post.

When I read Zach post, I added a couple of paragraphs to the comments section detailing the actual causes for the 1990s drop in violent crime (economics, get-tough legislation, and demographics).  I mentioned my Gun Facts e-book and provided a link for the convenience of anyone who wanted more in-depth info.  The post was polite and succinct.

And it remains unpublished, though others have followed me:

* Several people’s comments have been posted after mine.

* Many are antagonistic and impolite.

* Some have links.

So I can find no excuse for Huffington to not include my post, aside from keeping people from achieving a deeper and more informed understanding of the issue, and one that goes against the political agenda of Huffington’s management.  In other words they hand-pick comments that amplify their beliefs, or prevent people from learning contradictory data.

Intellectual fraud at best, corruption of conscious at least.

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