Apparently Dr. George Tiller existing
'drew gun violence'
'drew gun violence'
Tuesday morning, abortion opponents went before the Wichita City Council seeking to shut down the South Wind Women’s Center, a clinic that provides abortions. Among their complaints: The clinic draws gun violence.The South Wind Woman's Center is the clinic opened after George Tiller, owner of the previous clinic in that building, was shot dead in his church by an anti-abortion zealot. Tiller was previously shot by another anti-abortion protestor at his clinic, so anti-abortion radicals are indeed right to say that it seems to attract gun violence. Specifically, gun violence by anti-abortion radicals.
Of course that's not what the mostly insane nutcases mean, though. No, they mean that sometimes the security staff or others have guns, and that hurts their f--king fee-fees.
Reached by phone, Mark S. Gietzen, chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life and one of the petitioners, had a rather different account. He said he and his fellow volunteers had counted 18 incidents involving guns — none actually discharged — between 2004 and 2009, two of which were security staff employed by the clinic pulling guns out of a holster, Gietzen said.More on these "gun incidents" below the fold.He also counts as “gun incidents” the guns toted by male associates angry at women in their lives getting abortions, including, he said, a “high-powered rifle” pulled on Gietzen himself by a man angry at his anti-abortion protesting.