Most Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes you safer:
A Washington Post-ABC News poll — not a Rasmussen or some Rove outfit, but the Post and an alphabet network — finds that by a wide margin, more Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes it safer than not. It’s not even close. A majority — 51% — believe that having a gun in the home makes that home safer. Only 29% believe the opposite.
During the lock-down of Boston yesterday there was a fair amount of Twitter chatter about whether people in Boston would feel safer if Massachusetts did not have such onerous gun laws.
https://twitter.com/Garrett_R_Hall/status/325375418230251520
I just cannot imagine anyone in TN ordering Nashvillians to cower in their homes. We wouldn’t comply. We are armed and unafraid.
— Bill Hobbs (@billhobbs) April 19, 2013
That set off some pretty hostile reactions.
Who in Boston is saying “Thank God I’m not allowed to own a gun” right now?
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 19, 2013
Wow, with a rebuttal like that, I have to concede you’re right about everything RT @awsmcmndo Moron.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) April 19, 2013
But no reactions were more hostile than to this tweet by Arkansas state representative Nate Bell:
The tweet set off firestorm, leading Bell to delete the tweet (and hence the hundreds of negative reactions). He later apologized. (The apology is not deleted.)
I happened to grab the tweet and reaction before it was deleted (embedded below). It’s worth a read to see the reactions.
One stood out for me.
It was from Gina Mosca of Boston, using the Twitter handle @GinaFly. It too has been deleted, but I captured it as part of the full twitter stream:
Like I said, a cultural divide exposed.
Twitter _ NateBell4AR_ I Wonder How Many Boston Liberals … (1) by Legal Insurrection
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