{"id":558262,"date":"2021-06-09T14:21:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558262"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:21:49","slug":"la-times-columnist-who-likened-trump-supporters-to-terrorists-wants-real-estate-listings-to-show-gun-ownership-in-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-times-columnist-who-likened-trump-supporters-to-terrorists-wants-real-estate-listings-to-show-gun-ownership-in-area\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times Columnist Who Likened Trump Supporters To Terrorists Wants Real Estate Listings To Show Gun Ownership In Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fla-times-columnist-who-likened-trump-supporters-to-terrorists-wants-real-estate-listings-to-show-gun-ownership-in-area%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558262&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1052155228.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times who seems to have hostility toard guns and a contempt for Trump voters offered a novel suggestion for people wishing to buy or rent a place to live: make real-estate listings delineate the \u201cprevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius\u201d around the listed home.<\/p>\n<p>Virgina Heffernan tweeted, \u201cReal-estate listings should include prevalence of gun-ownership in a 50-mile radius and number of annual mass shootings in the region. Time to change what a \u2018bad neighborhood\u2019 is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[A]nd introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence,\u201d she continued. \u201cNo one should say \u2018this is a great place to raise kids\u2019 about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe metric would be simple,\u201d she posited. \u201cExample: Staten Island (pop 474k) has 4x the gun ownership per capita of the Bronx (pop 1.4m). If that reads as safer or more frer (sic) to some people, Staten Island is for them. If not, maybe time for the Bronx. Take race, class, politics out of the real-estate equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.421052631579\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2026and introduce a meaningful tax on guns and gun violence. <\/p>\n<p>No one should say \u201cthis is a great place to raise kids\u201d about neighborhoods where even one person has an assault rifle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/page88\/status\/1402241605420163076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.281105990783\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If that reads as safer or more frer to some people, Staten Island is for them. If not, maybe time for the Bronx. Take race, class, politics out of the real-estate equation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/page88\/status\/1402248703780569095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When someone brought up the infamous\u00a0interactive map\u00a0of local gun owners published by the\u00a0Journal-News of the Westchester and Rockland counties of New York in 2012, Heffernan replied, \u201cNot doxing. Just available data on gun ownership per capita.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0857142857143\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not doxing. Just available data on gun ownership per capita.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virginia Heffernan (@page88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/page88\/status\/1402298780591009795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heffernan, who has referred to former President Trump as \u201cbrain-addled,\u201d wrote in July 2020:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>The pandemic kicked off a rush on, of all things, guns. In locked-down states, gun stores were declared as essential as groceries. Widespread unemployment and then the George Floyd protests may have added to the rush to arms. In any case,\u00a0according to the Wall Street Journal,\u00a0unprecedented numbers of Americans purchased guns between March and June, and the FBI processed a record number of firearm background checks: 7.8 million. It\u2019s not clear what guns might do against microbes or joblessness, but maybe it\u2019s axiomatic in America: When afraid, buy guns.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In February, Heffernan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-supporters-plow-neighbors-driveway-for-her-she-likens-them-to-nazis-terrorists-megyn-kelly-tells-neighbors-what-to-do\">noted<\/a> that her Trump-loving neighbors had done her a favor and \u201cplowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job,\u201d but then likened them to Nazi supporters and Hezbollah terrorists, snapping, \u201cMy neighbors supported a man who showed near-murderous contempt for the majority of Americans. They kept him in business with their support,\u201d before pontificating, \u201cI also can\u2019t give my neighbors absolution; it\u2019s not mine to give.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Fox News anchor and current podcast host Megyn Kelly fired back with some advice for the kindly neighbors: \u201cThis woman compares her Trump-supporting neighbors, who plowed her driveway, to Nazi sympathizers &#038; Hezbollah &#038; wrestles w\/whether to show them any kindness since she \u2018can\u2019t give them absolution.\u2019 Note to Virginia Heffernen\u2019s neighbors: don\u2019t plow again.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.59880239521\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This woman compares her Trump-supporting neighbors, who plowed her driveway, to Nazi sympathizers &#038; Hezbollah &#038; wrestles w\/whether to show them any kindness since she \u201ccan\u2019t give them absolution.\u201d<br \/>Note to Virginia Heffernen\u2019s neighbors: don\u2019t plow again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZZCnPfI46S\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZZCnPfI46S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/1358506645974835205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Heffernan began her diatribe by explaining, \u201cOh, heck no. The Trumpites next door to our pandemic getaway, who seem as devoted to the ex-president as you can get without being Q fans, just\u00a0plowed our driveway without being asked and did a great job.\u00a0How am I going to resist demands for unity in the face of this act of aggressive niceness?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She even acknowledged this was no ordinary snow-shoveling: \u201cOf course, on some level, I realize I owe them thanks \u2014 and, man, it really looks like the guy back-dragged the driveway like a pro \u2014 but how\u00a0much\u00a0thanks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After quoting actor Eddie Murphy from an old \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d saying, \u201cSlowly I began to realize that when white people are alone, they give things to each other. For free,\u201d Heffernan segued to likening the neighbors to the terrorist group Hezbollah: \u201cHezbollah, the Shiite Islamist political party in Lebanon, also gives things away for free. \u00a0\u2026 like other mafias, Hezbollah tends to its own \u2014 the Shiite sick, elderly and hungry. They offer protection and hospitality and win loyalty that way. And they also demand devotion to their brutal, us-versus-them anti-Sunni cause. Some of us are family, the favors say; the rest are infidels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times who seems to have hostility toard guns and a contempt for Trump voters offered a novel suggestion for people wishing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279764,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1052155228.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"LA Times Columnist Who Likened Trump Supporters To Terrorists Wants Real Estate Listings To Show Gun Ownership In Area","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1052155228.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"LA Times Columnist Who Likened Trump Supporters To Terrorists Wants Real Estate Listings To Show Gun Ownership In Area","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}