In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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If you counter-demonstrate, be aware that Westboro is a business masquerading as a hate group and a counter-demonstration is likely just what WBC wants from you.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center...
WBC "makes money by winning or settling civil lawsuits involving the church. During the 1990s, the group sued Topeka multiple times for failing to provide sufficient protection during its protests."
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/westboro-baptist-church#.UcJzjJzNmqw
More recently, a father of a Marine killed in Afghanistan had to pay WBC $16,500 in court costs.
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/news/ci_17528821