Thursday, March 28, 2013

Aposhian's Stolen Gun Underscores the Danger

  Enter Clark Aposhian to the gun debate. Well, of a truth, if any one person has been central to the gun debate in Utah, it would be gun rights advocate Clark Aposhian. He entered this debate long, long ago.
   But, today, he entered the debate in a way he surely didn't want to. His gun was stolen. Check that. His assault rifle was stolen . . . out of the car he left it in overnight.
   Big enough story. Lead story on Fox 13 today.
   With 600,000 guns stolen from homes each year, and with a large share of violent crime being committed with stolen guns, it can be argued our nation's thirst for having guns means more gun deaths than there would be without so many of them. The response is that responsible gun owners wouldn't let that happen. Well . . . http://fox13now.com/2013/03/28/assault-rifle-stolen-from-gun-advocates-car/
   It's possible someone just stole the gun to embarrass Aposhian. At any rate, leaving an AR-15 overnight in a car, even though the car was locked, isn't good gun safety. If one of the state's best-known gun safety teachers can slip and let his gun be sniped away, well, that underscores the danger.

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