One of my daily stops is to read the musings and rants of Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld. Gut’s humor and insight are - well - entertaining.

Today’s treatise was about one Arthur Frommer, in particular, but it was also about right to carry versus crime rates. I don’t know how many pro-gun guys read Gut, but today’s Daily Gut is worth the read:

MONDAY’S GREGALOGUE: FROMMER = TOOL

gut.jpgSo the king of the travel guide racket, Arthur Frommer, has come out against Arizona. Yes, he claims he’ll no longer visit the state because it permits “thugs” to openly carry guns. He revealed this on his blog, after witnessing a protester carrying a rifle outside a building where the President was speaking.

Image: Greg Gutfeld

Frommer says he’ll consider whether “tourists should safeguard themselves” by avoiding the crime-ridden hell-hole that is the Grand Canyon. After I read about this, I decided to do a search to see if Frommer ever made similar pronouncements about other cities or states. I wondered if he had ever told people to avoid Washington DC, where, according to a US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004 report – that place topped the entire country in crime.

Zilch. Nor could I find any such commentary, regarding Detroit, Memphis or Miami - the only large cities in the US with more than 950 violent crimes per 100,000 people, according to FBI’s 2008 crime report. And what of President Obama’s very own Chicago, a city experiencing a dramatic uptick in shootings, muggings and other violent gang activity? Did Frommer warn travelers away from that bullet-ridden borough?

Nope. Fact is, Frommer went after Arizona, because it’s an easy target. It’s just a bunch a white rednecks with guns, even if one of the white rednecks is uh, black. And it feeds Frommer’s ego: voicing an opinion in sync with the liberal, like-minded media provides him, for a brief moment, an elevated sense of self.

But I sympathize. All he does all day is make travel guides.

Maybe he should get out more.

All the more reason to move to Arizona.