Political correctness from the Left...and Right?

I understand “political correctness” (PC) to generally mean the Judeo-Christian values of the West are harmful and that absolute truth does not exist making all things relative. I see PC coming from the Left. However, after receiving an email from a couple strongly supporting our Second Amendment rights to bear arms I wonder if the Right cannot be guilty of PC as well. The following is a brief article we ran in our Summer edition of The Children’s Messenger, our agency newsletter.

Is There A Gun Where Your Child Plays?
“Over 40% of homes with children have a gun, and many of those guns are left unlocked or loaded. Just talking to your child about the dangers of firearms is not enough. Children are naturally curious. If a gun is accessible in someone's home, there is a good chance a child will find it and play with it. So...ASK if there is a gun before sending your child over to play. If the answer is NO...that's one less thing you have to worry about.

If the answer is YES...You have to determine if your child's safety is at risk. Guns should be kept in a gun safe with the ammunition locked separately or they pose a real risk to your child. Hiding guns is not enough. There are countless tragic stories of kids finding guns that parents thought were well hidden or safely stored. If you have any doubts about the safety of someone's home, you should politely invite the children to play at your house instead.” Additional info – www.paxusa.org    (You can read The Messenger with the original article here.)

The following is an email we received from a couple on our mailing list asking we remove them from our mailing list.

As you have seen fit to include anti-second amendment web-sites and information in your newsletter we can no longer support your organization, nor do we wish to hear from you in the future. Do not try to claim ignorance or that they mis-represented themselves. The truth about their organization is easily accessible and available. Short of a front page retraction of support for "paxusa," a SINCERE apology, and a link to the NRA Eddie Eagle Program of gun safety, there is little you could do to regain my support (or of the other pro-2nd Amendment members of local churches) once the truth of your anti-2nd Amendment political views become well known.

We are truly saddened by this political turn in your public stance. We had hoped for better from your organization.  We hope you soon hear from the others who will no doubt be as disappointed in you as we are.

I think it is obvious the article in our newsletter was not about challenging anyone’s Second Amendment rights to own guns. I own guns. The website we reference is all about child safety and guns. Surely, the couple that wrote us would not disagree with the message we printed about gun safety and kids on the site and quoted in our publication.

Is this a form of political correctness from the right? Have we become so concerned from both sides of the political and cultural spectrum that we are willing to sacrifice the safety of children, the definition of marriage and even our national security on the alter of offending no one?

Comments

[JD Sparks]

The problem with this type of article is that it tries to assume that a gun in the house is a problem. It is a slow step towards what have become the left's mantra of hatred for guns and gun owners. Your kids don't need to play somewhere else because a gun is in my house. In fact a house with a pool is much more deadly to children than my guns!
The problem with your excuses is that the facts don't bear fruit to your claims. The areas of the country where there are more guns see much less crime, and gun accidents. When you make guns evil you commit the fallacy of the "forbidden fruit" syndrome and then the first thing kids want to do is touch the first gun they see. You actually cause more damage than you prevent.