Katie Pavlich Quotes


It isn't brave to stand up for gun control in a building surrounded by armed guards. It's simply elitist.


Citations

Pavlich, Katie. "The elite hypocrisy of gun control." The Hill, 4 Oct. 2017.

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Like many other ideologues, the Senator was a better politician than he was a historian. He had a tendency to not be very accurate in his facts. In this particular gaff, which was castigated by critics, he was wrong about both facts he gave. First, not only was it not the case that there were few gun crimes “back then”. See {640086} and {640085} . Second his implication that everyone carried guns, and the guns were responsible for the “low” gun crime rate, was also false. Gun crime was so prevalent that most towns and cities in the West had gun control ordinances prohibiting carrying guns in the city limits. The famous Gunfight at the OK Corral which the Senator cited was in Tombstone, AZ in 1881. At that time, it was illegal to carry a gun in Tombstone. See {640063} for the gun control ordinance. As a matter of fact, the OK Corral gunfight was fought because Sheriff Wyatt Earp was disarming some cowboys who brought their guns to town. Glen Kessler, The Washington Post fact checker gave this quotation “3 Pinocchios”.


In 1988 and 1989 there was a rash of gun murders in Washington DC Most of the illegal guns confiscated in Washington had been procured legally in nearby Virginia:


Gunsmiths were few in early America and a skilled gunsmith could only make about 3 per month. As a result guns in early America were a luxury and few Americans orned them. This is contrary to the myth that the early Americans were all gun owners and sharpshooters.


Katie Pavlich
Katie Pavlich
  • Born: July 10, 1988
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Journalist, Blogger, Political Commentator, Author

Catherine Merri "Katie" Pavlich is an American conservative commentator, author, blogger, and podcaster.