Talk:Rebecca Peters

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[edit] Criticism from firearms advocates

She is a human rights abuser who hates personal freedoms.[1].

Can we say "human rights abuser"? --Wing Nut 18:28, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Ref the anon gave reads as follows:

Rebecca Peters

Rpeters@sorosny.org

Rebecca Peters was Chair of the National Coalition for Gun Control, which campaigned to tighten Australia's gun laws in the 1990s. Her research and advocacy helped bring about sweeping changes, including uniform gun laws across the eight states, a ban on semiautomatic rifles and shotguns, and a year-long buyback that destroyed nearly 700,000 weapons. Among the awards she received was the 1996 Australian Human Rights Medal, her country's highest human rights honor.

A lawyer and journalist, Ms Peters is now a Senior Fellow at the Open Society Institute, the private foundation funded by George Soros. For the past two years she directed the foundation's grants program aimed at reducing gun violence in the USA. She produced the landmark report, Gun Control in the United States: A Survey of State Firearm Laws (OSI, 2000). Currently she is focussing on the global campaign against the proliferation of small arms.

Nothing in there about hating personal freedoms. --Wing Nut 18:30, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

These criticisms keep popping up. I personally agree with them but of course it's ridiculous to vandalise articles with POV stuff. Perhaps it might be worth considering a referenced statement with words to the effect of: her efforts in this area have attracted strong criticism from blah blah blah (e.g. NRA) who argue that blah blah blah. This might need to be balanced with some praise from other quarters. --Russell E 05:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)