A summit usually has more than one side

From a loyal reader, via Uncle:

A bunch of professional gun-grabbers, including Minnesota's own local Brady Campaign puppet, Chaska Police Chief Scott Knight, are going to meet in Seattle to discuss "an effort to draw up better strategies to reduce violent crime and stop criminals from obtaining firearms."

That is, how can we find a way to ban all guns, as if that would somehow stop criminals from obtaining and using them anyway, just like they do in every other place that the tactic has been tried. Take France, for a recent example.

Oh, the attendees talk a big game about being open to any and all solutions:

"...'I want to come in with an open mind about what we can do,' said Fred Rivara, a University of Washington professor of pediatrics and epidemiology"

The only problem is, the conference, which was paid for by the Joyce Foundation, a radical anti-gun organization based in Chicago, has deliberately not invited any opinions or arguments from groups or individuals who oppose their gun-banning "solution", as gun journalist Dave Workman reports:

"Gun rights advocates were deliberately not invited to this event, which is "Invitation Only."

This, folks, is known as gaming the system to provide a foregone conclusion. As one commenter on the Seattle P-I article's website notes, this is comparable to David Duke hosting a seminar on racial diversity.

"During the one-day conference at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center, they'll hear from experts who will share how efforts elsewhere have worked."

If they're expecting to hear how banning guns reduces crime, it's going to be a very short conference, as I know of no place where that idea has ever worked.