Gabrielle Blair is a popular parenting and design writer,
blogger, mom of six, and New York Times bestselling author. “Gabby” (as she
says some call her) claims her site, Design Mom, is “all about the intersection
of design and motherhood,” and adds, “I think you’re going to love reading
Design Mom.” Why? She touts her site as having “the most thoughtful parenting
‘convos’ on the web.”
Hopefully
they are more thoughtful then the comments she recently made on Twitter to Exposing
Gun Control, a site against stricter gun control regulations. Blair said “a gun
extremist will immediately imagine an armed intruder who has come to murder”
when thinking of protecting his or her family. She then flatly states: “That’s
not going to happen.” She reiterates, saying, “The thing you don’t understand:
There isn’t going to be an armed intruder. That’s just your
paranoia.”
Tell
that to the 200,000-plus victims of violent household burglaries in the U.S.
every year. According to the Department of Justice, on average there are nearly 3.7
million home invasions each year. And, each year, over one-half million
citizens use a firearm in self-defense.
Gabby
stated: “The reality is, you’re probably going to die of heart disease or
diabetes, or just old age and natural causes.” Maybe…if I protect myself and my
family from violent criminals, Nostradamus. She noted that “people who actually
interact and care for children each day” think of things like “using car seats,
preventing hormones and dangerous chemicals in food, child-proofing the
cleaning supplies and (preventing) schoolyard bullying.” Yes, I can’t sleep
most nights worrying about a hormone getting past me into my children’s food.
Ms.
Blair seems oddly possessed by inanity. She continued exercising her anti-gun
demons by declaring: “If you want to protect your family, things like seatbelts,
fire alarms, and life insurance are your best bet.” This might be hard for you
to fathom, Gabby, but gun owners utilize these things, too. @designmom’s thread
of nonsense continued unabated. She wrote, “I for sure value the lives of
children more than your right to own a gun. FOR SURE. 100%.”
I’m sure I speak for all my fellow firearms
owners when I say, “I for sure value the lives of my children—and other loved
ones and innocents—more than your right to spew non sequiturs across the
Twitterverse, Gabby.”
Then Ms. Blair, ever happy to beat
a dead horse, reiterated her earlier reiteration, saying: “There are far better
ways to protect your family than a gun. Get a life insurance policy.”
Au contraire, Ms. Blair. Get a gun.
That way, perhaps your loved ones won’t need their life insurance policies…just
yet.
Unless you’d rather get
cold, hard cash for their cold, dead bodies.
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