Need some information about Dr. Laura

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Miss Demeanors

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While in that anti gun conversation with my mom, Dr. Laura slipped my mind. My mom listens to her often and always talks highly about her. This could be what I need. What exactly did Dr. Laura say? She was anti gun but then decided to try shooting? I can't remember the story. Did she write anything about her gun experience? If she didn't print anything I could use all the information possible. I *know* my mom wouldn't disagree with her idol :D Thanks in advance! :)

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Check out drlaura.com. She archives a lot of her programs and writings. She is interesting to me because she isnt afraid to change her mind. You could also do a search on TFL. She has been discussed here before.

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You are right, Sandy. I don't have the slightest interest in Doctor Laura, but I do seem to remember that she had had a "religious" conversion, had gone shooting, and now believes that guns are great and people need them for protection.
I believe this was posted on TFL a while back. You may want to try searching the archives.
 
I think she changed her mind after seeing the L.A. riots. She lives (lived?) in L.A. and saw the National Guard posted (with guns of course) around her neighbored. She said she had never felt safer in her home with the Guard around, which led to the change of mind.
 
In one of her shows, she talked about her trip to Israel, and how with everyone walking around with machineguns she felt safer than she ever had up to that point. She remarked about how little crime Israel has.
 
I never got the impression that she was "strongly" in favor of CCW. I've never heard her mention CCW either way, and her "conversion" was simply to say that she would think more about guns because after going shooting she wasn't so sure they were bad.

But about a week ago she berated a man on her show. This guy called in because his wife suddenly dropped into severe depression about 8 months ago, tried to commit suicide with a pistol they owned, and was later hospitalized. Now she's coming home and he wanted to know how much to tell the children about her problem (apparently having the children walk in was all that stopped that first attempt :( )
Dr. Laura's response was to berate this man for being such an idiot as to keep a gun in a house with a suicidal person. When he pointed out that he'd had his guns for 20-some years and that he hadn't known she was suicidal, Dr. Laura did not relent. Eventually she answered his question, but she never let up on the idea that he was stupid to have had a gun in the first place.

Besides, even if she agrees with us, she'll still be a self-righteous windbag in the Sally Jessy Raphael/Jerry Springer tradition.
 
Thanks bruels!

Don, thanks for telling me that. My luck my Mom probably heard that one and thats what she will use. But at least I have a heads up about it now. LOL Always be one step ahead of them, that's the trick :D

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I thought Dr. Laura might be a reasonable success story for someone prominent who came to realize the need for the RKBA.

However, she has gone on a antigay tirade lately and thus consigns herself to the raving looney bin side of talk radio.

If she confirms in the mind of the political middle that gun folks are also bigots, then she isn't an asset outside of the choir.

One has the right to believe what they want.
However, practically she has little value as a spokesperson.
 
Hmmm...I thought her "conversion" came about last year after the Jewish Daycare shooting by Buford Furrow.

Regardless, I agree with Glenn and Don...best to mention Dr. L in passing and not dwell on it....her endorsement does us no good at all.
Too bad, a few years ago, she did dish out common sense...since she has gone national and "popular" she is abuse radio at its peak.

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While Dr. Laura has some good ideas, I find her inconsistent in applying same to similar situations presented to her. One day she will take one stand on someone's family interpersonal problems and then the next day she will take an entirely different stand on a similar situation. I also notice she is sometimes quick to state her opinion before listening completely to the caller's situation.
 
Let's not jump on the media bandwagon and chastise Dr Laura from what we hear in the news. All she said about gays is that they were biologically malfunctional and could not reproduce. It was more of a scientific observation than a moral judgement. She is not on a tyrade, she just made a comment, and like everything else, the vocal monority has turned into a tyrade. She accepts gay calls on her show and advises their relationships the same as she does other calls. She is not adamantly anti-gay or something, like people are trying to paint her. People hate her because she stands up for moral values. Certain groups that despise these values are going to look for anything they can to tear her down.

Regarding the suicidal woman, I heard that episode also. I did not think Dr. Laura came down that hard on the man. She just said that having a gun around a suicidal person is not too smart. Makes sense to me. She said that once he saw her acting suicidal, that he should remove funtioning guns from the environment, at least temporarily. Anyone disagree with that?

I don't really like her show and I think she is hypercritical, but I don't think it is fair to criticize her for things we here in the media. If you are going to criticize her, then at least listen to her show or seek out quotes from her show so that you are criticizing things she really says rather than things that te media and vocal minority groups SAY that they think she said.

Regarding guns, the people above have said it right. She used examples of Israel and the recent LA Riots to show that an armed society reduces crime and that having guns around keeps crime down. She said she noticed that in the LA Riots when there were all these people standing around with full auto weapons that she felt very safe. She also noticed that in Israel everyone packs a full auto UZI and they have no crime. She then decided to seek out training fro a Police Officer friend of hers so she could learn how to use a gun. She is a thinking woman and she just put 2 and 2 together to come to the conclusion that guns are not evil, in fact they are good for society in the right hands. To us this is not too shocking, but to her soccer mom listeners, this seemed like it was a great revelation.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by bestdefense357:
Dr. Laura now strongly favors CCW. She feels that a gun in the hands of a woman is an "equalizer." Robert[/quote]

Yes, Bestdefense357.

I've been called that many a time by women. ;) ......... :D Robert

Miss Demeanors,

jpfo.org Has a short article written about Dr. Laura. Scroll down to "search" and you'll find it pretty quickly. PS: I came up with 7 articles when I typed in "Dr. Laura" and clicked search.

Robert

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The epiphany came for her after the shootings in the Jewish community center in LA and the shootings in the Atlanta office. Her thought was, "If just ONE of those people had had a gun and used it, the rampages could have been stopped before more lives were lost or ruined." She is exactly right in her thinking. Her conversion goes beyond just owning guns. She is now in the realm of carrying guns in public for the defense of self and others.

The underlying theme of her show is responsibility. Responsibility to God, yourself, your family, and society. She is coming to recognize that the responsible person takes steps to protect themselves and doesn't depend on others to do it for them. Give her a little time, she's coming around.
 
Not to get too far off the topic of this thread, but I listen to Dr. Laura regularly while sitting in traffic, which, in my area, takes a lot of time. Anyway, the gay-bashing charge against her is largely a bad rap concocted or at any rate perpetuated by all-or-nothing media zealots who never listen to her. As happens so often, the media cannot be trusted.

Laura points out that when God created Adam, He didn't create another Adam for him, He created an Eve. Some folks may not like the implications of this truism, and if I were gay (which I'm not) I might not like them either. But I don't perceive it as bashing or hate speech, and am pretty sure she doesn't mean it to be. She expressly does not denigrate gays as human beings, although she does not endorse their behavior. She treats gays who call her with problems the same as she treats everyone else. I personally would label her position "moderate." At least, that's how she seems to me.

BTW, when "Time" magazine perpetuated an anti-Laura myth even after she had demonstrated to the magazine that it was false, she said she was amazed! She couldn't believe that "Time," which she had respected, would do such a thing! OK, Laura, welcome to the reality of the elite media! Sorry you were their victim, but where have you been? We gunowners have known about "Time" for years. :rolleyes:

So, am I a Dr. Laura fan? Not especially. But the way the media treat her reminds me a lot of how gunowners are treated by the same media. So I kinda relate.

Just my $0.02.

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