Occasionally, I like to browse left-wing websites to see the Rant of the Day.  Recently, I found myself on CNN.com.  It took only a few lines down the list of articles before I came across an opinion piece written by Peter Bergen.  The writer declared in the title, "America's Unyielding Plague of Gun Violence," that we are a sick country.  Since this was CNN, I wasn't too shocked. Bergen stated that 2011 was a deadly year in terms of gun violence with 11,000 deaths.  While this is a large number, unsurprisingly, Bergen failed to mention how many of these deaths were a result of self-defense.  He failed to spot a few lines down the passage stating that from 2007 to 2011, there were 29,618,300 firearm uses in self-defense.  The statistics are staggering and advocate for citizens, but in typical leftist fashion, those numbers were left out. Bergen called for greater government control of guns.  But that tactic has...(Read Full Post)