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Another Poster Child for Reasoned Discourse (tm)
(Alternate Title: Jayne Lyn Stahl Dances in the Blood of the Dead)

Via Unc comes this piece of trash from Jayne Lyn Stahl.

I'll pull out a few of the more idiotic bits.

That said, there appears to be far greater leniency with respect to the carrying, and use, of weapons by members of law enforcement in this country than is desirable.

I don't get that statement at all. Police shouldn't carry weapons? Shouldn't use them when necessary?

Interestingly, as you know, police officers in Great Britain don't carry guns, and that country has a much lower incidence of violent crime.

This is where I get to call Ms. Stahl a baldfaced liar. Not often I get to do that, but there are numerous references citing Great Britain's soaring violent crime rate after they enacted strict gun control.

There are many who .... say that police departments needn't bother taking a closer look at the way they train their recruits with respect to when, where, how, and why they discharge their weapons, tear gas, and tasers.

Many? Name one, please. That is the stupidest thing I've read (so far). No one with two brain cells left to rub together would make such a statement.

While one often thinks of Charleton Heston when thinking about the NRA, in this age of the cowboy, any gun-toting madman will do just as well.

For you and your ilk, we're all gun-toting madmen. And since when is being a cowboy a bad thing?

We know we've arrived when the "authorities" who shot the off-duty deputy sheriff to death themselves face review.

They usually do. Of course, that wouldn't fit your world view, so just pretend it never happens.

We have become far too accepting of fatal shootings by on-duty police officers

We who? Again, two brain cells is all it takes to understand that way of thinking is foolish.

just as we're far too tolerant of those who think it's their constitutional right to bear arms, even when, increasingly, it's at the expense of innocent life.

Why, in a country with millions of guns, aren't there millions of gun crimes on a daily basis? Increasingly, it's because responsible gun owners don't go shooting people willy-nilly.

This officer who fired his gun, and took the lives of six isn't the only poster child for the NRA; each of his victims is, too.

No, the true "poster children" of the NRA are the ones calling you on this issue, pointing out your inaccuracies and lies.

It's taken me the better part of the morning to carve out the non-gun related stupid. There's so much there, I have to say I'm impressed. The best part comes in comments where, after one negative comment, she says

You know, I'm really getting disgusted with the comments on this blog. I got my facts DIRECTLY from the Associated Press report Sunday morning.

Who gets their facts DIRECTLY from the Brady Bunch, natch.

You can't make this stuff up. Like Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."

To see more of Ms Stahl's "work" go here.. It's a good representation of the "blame America first" (and Israel second) crowd, as well as hit pieces on the military (she would have us believe the Army's overrun with neo-nazis), plenty of Bush Derangement Syndrome, and a dash of "evil corporate America" thrown in for good measure.

UPDATE: Speaking of Cowboys, check out this post concerning tough guys and the code of the west.

(h/t to baldilocks)

UPDATE THE SECOND: Lawdog has more cowboy stuff!

Yeee Haaaa!