Getting that feel-good feeling
The San Diego Union-Tribune has an article in today's paper on a local woman's efforts to ban billboard advertising of gun shows.
She sees the violence guns have brought to her community, so the last thing Bevelynn Bravo wants is for them to be advertised around her neighborhood.
In her five-year crusade, Bravo has tried to stop billboard operators from advertising gun shows in her Lincoln Park community. She doesn't blame them for the violence directly, but she said, she doesn't think gun sales should be promoted.
“I feel like they are contributing to the deaths in this community,†Bravo said. “The gun-show billboards aren't doing us any good.â€
Yeah, because the young criminals doing all of the shooting in Lincoln Park got their firearms at gun shows. I suppose I don't really care too much about whether or not the advertising restriction goes through, though I am a little uncomfortable whenever a legal, constitutionally protected product gets this sort of treatment.
However, the ignorance on display here is profound. No common sense is required when you have a "cause."
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logic and reason ride second to emotion. She's to be applauded for taking up the topic. Why doesn't she organize a "what is your child doing right now and what time are they required to be home?" campaign. The community knows who the bad apples are. Show some courage and protest in front of their houses? (easier for me to say, but what else will work?)