As Twitchy reported Monday morning, Gabrielle Blair, founder of Design Mom, a parenting blog, was cooking up an amazing ratio with her hot take that “there are far better ways to protect your family than a gun. Get a life insurance policy.” If you want to protect your family, she maintains, “things like seatbelts, fire alarms, and life insurance are your best bet.”
How about seatbelts, fire alarms, a life insurance policy, and a gun for good measure?
It turns out she wasn’t done and went on a bit more before muting replies; apparently she’d grown bored with the conversation.
If the topic of protecting your family comes up, a gun extremist will immediately imagine an armed intruder who has come to murder. That's not going to happen. It's rare enough that it's not something people need to worry about or make decisions based on.
— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) November 25, 2019
Car crashes and fires are reasonable rare too, but they happen.
If the topic of protecting your family comes up among people who actually interact and care for children each day, they think of things like using car seats, preventing hormones and dangerous chemicals in food, child-proofing the cleaning supplies, and schoolyard bullying.
— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) November 25, 2019
Hundreds and hundreds of you have explained to me that a life insurance policy won't protect against an armed intruder.
I never said it would.
The thing you don't understand: There isn't going to be an armed intruder. That's just your paranoia.https://t.co/IeWLxUUHB7
— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) November 25, 2019
Tell that to the 8-months-pregnant mom in Florida who used her AR-15 to drop one of two armed, masked strangers who fractured her husband’s eye socket and grabbed their 11-year-old daughter … who likely wasn’t wearing a seatbelt at the time.
Even the NPR article which Blair references as proof cites the Washington Post reporting that “a more reasonable estimate” of self-defense gun uses equals about 100,000 annually, according to the NCVS data. It also notes that a study by criminologist Gary Kleck that estimates between 2.2 and 2.5 million defensive gun uses annually points out that “there is no record of these gunshot victims because most instances of self-defense gun use are not reported.”
A gun in the home is FAR more likely to kill or maim a household member than it is to protect them.
Enjoy your daydreams about armed stand-offs. But that's all they are. Daydreams.
— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) November 25, 2019
But wait, there’s more:
Update: A shocking number of you are CONVINCED that armed intruders will enter your home at 2 AM. And specially at 2 AM. Is there like an NRA ad about a 2 AM break in? Some meme I missed?
Don't answer. I don't actually want to know. Muting this thread now.
— Gabrielle Blair (@designmom) November 25, 2019
But it was just getting good!
“I’m muting this thread” translated from Twitterese to English means “I’m getting ratioed and just want it all to stop”
— Jeremy R ?? (@JeremyRFLA) November 25, 2019
"People don't agree with me so I'm going to put my fingers in my ears." pic.twitter.com/Yvs5VusdXR
— Mark Pie (@13thRoundKO) November 25, 2019
“Muring this thread now” = don’t want to hear counter arguments pic.twitter.com/DDs6SdQeAL
— jenntenn (@jenntenn) November 25, 2019
Run away! ? pic.twitter.com/dF6KH9Edqc
— Rev. Dr. Steve (@SteveCrawford5) November 25, 2019
Leftist Courage: tweet something moronic then mute the conversation so you have an excuse to not answer for your idiocy.
— Epstein Didn't Kill Himself (@airborne13b27) November 26, 2019
that's a weak cop-out
"my failed point I was trying to make is being debunked so I'm just going to mute this whole thing"
— Gianbattista (@gbtiepolo1) November 25, 2019
— Steven Gutierrez (@sgyh15) November 26, 2019
Corncobbing defined https://t.co/IR4Q0ciXbO
— Smittie™ GED (Hons), BS (D-) (@smittie61984) November 26, 2019
Sooo, because statistically your home won't catch on fire we should not invest in updating our smoke detectors or new extinguishers when they expire? I think only preparing for the very likely things that go wrong is probably the best idea. Ever.
— Paul Stewart (@mr0ldie) November 26, 2019
I dont ever plan on getting in a car accident yet I put my seatbelt on every time.
It's not your prerogative to tell me what I can and can't do with my weapons.
Insta Block now you moron.
— Kelly K. (@kelly_kov) November 26, 2019
The fact is millions of home intrusions happen every year. So we keep guns just in case. Every home is built with smoke detectors but I doubt we’re all considered paranoid of house fires.
— Ryan (@rwinfield16) November 25, 2019
Not all of us get to live in a gated community, Karen.
— Jay Sus (@Thee_Jay_Sus) November 25, 2019
But what about the 2 a.m. thing?
Probably because most break-ins occur in the hours between midnight and dawn.
— Abyssaltech (@abyssaltech) November 25, 2019
My sisters attack was 1pm on a Saturday afternoon . You don't get to pick and choose the time I an attack.
— Mary Callison (@koopac7) November 26, 2019
They have, and left without kneecaps..45 ACP, thank you very much.
— Anybody here seen Richie? (@Spine22) November 26, 2019
TWICE defended my family from criminals merely by displaying my gun w/clear intent to use it if needed. One thief just RAN–& I let him+called 911–one guy jumped out the 2nd-floor window & broke his legs, so was lying there when cops arrived. Biometric safes keep my family safe.
— ??The Fist™ ?? (@GeekEndWarrior) November 25, 2019
And yet, I have defended my home with a firearm three times over the course of my life. Those stats don't make it into any reports or new stories, because there's nothing to report, even to police. The crime was prevented, lives were saved, and no one else was the wiser.
— Reverend Slim's Traveling Freakshow (@ReverendSlim) November 25, 2019
You are so naive! My son had someone kick down his front door at 4am and enter is house to steal things. Lucky for the intruder my son wasn’t home or he would have been shot!! So to say someone most likely won’t enter your house at 2am, your right, it was 4am instead!
— Karyn Farquhar (@KarynFarquhar) November 25, 2019
Typical lib, you don’t know and you don’t know that you don’t know. Statistics are weighted and dependent on other factors such as, location, socio-economics etc. Predators know things you don’t. 2:00AM is one of the best time to break into a home.
— The Wilts (@Thewilts) November 26, 2019
Also, a person who knowingly breaks into an occupied home is capable of anything and should be shot.
— The Wilts (@Thewilts) November 26, 2019
No, 2am is statistically when most invasions happen. Because they know you're asleep and presumed defenseless.
— therealwvoutdoors (@therealwvoutdo1) November 26, 2019
According to US DOJ 38% of assaults & 60% of rapes occur during home invasions. Over 2,000,000 homes will experience a break-in or burglary per year, 4500 per day in US. https://t.co/YYoponyr3z. 1 in 5 homes in US experience a break in estimated 8000 per day.
— Vern2015 (@Vern20151) November 26, 2019
What's sad is you're convinced nobody will break into your home.
— Dr. Ramirez ?? ??? (@cybr_gk) November 26, 2019
This is fast becoming the best parody account on the internet.
— Marcus Cole (@BabylonRanger) November 26, 2019
Related:
'Did a home intruder write this'? Parenting blogger says guns won't 'protect your family,' but a life insurance policy will https://t.co/aghTnfCLAR
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 25, 2019
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