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"Guns make us safer."

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:06 pm

Exorcist wrote:The New York Times even editorialized this month about the Supreme Court's "unwise" decision that there is a right for people "to keep guns in the home."
But Armageddon never happened. Newly released data for Chicago shows that, as in Washington, murder and gun crime rates didn't rise after the bans were eliminated -- they plummeted. They have fallen much more than the national crime rate.
Not surprisingly, the national media have been completely silent about this news.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/ ... -gun-news/

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Or maybe not.

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Post by klr » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:21 pm

John R. Lott, Jr. is a Fox News.com contributor and the author of the revised third edition of "More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 2010)."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/ ... z1ZvPVrO1r
Hardly the most unbiased source. Cherry picking some? :ask:
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:22 pm

klr wrote:
John R. Lott, Jr. is a Fox News.com contributor and the author of the revised third edition of "More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 2010)."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/ ... z1ZvPVrO1r
Hardly the most unbiased source. Cherry picking some? :ask:
Shirley Fox wouldn't do that. :mod:
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Jason » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:26 pm

Depends on who has the gun I think.

I've never taken notice, are you pro-gun or anti-gun 'Zilla?
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Oct 05, 2011 4:27 pm

PordFrefect wrote:Depends on who has the gun I think.

I've never taken notice, are you pro-gun or anti-gun 'Zilla?
I'd have to say that I'm sometimes interested in a gun or two. :coffee:
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Gallstones » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:45 pm

...or three or four or fifty.
Plus ammo and tannerite.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:46 pm

Gallstones wrote:...or three or four or fifty.
Plus ammo and tannerite.
Ayep.
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Gallstones » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:47 pm

And a 4x4 with a winch.
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Animavore » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:48 pm

Tannerite :swoon:
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:49 pm

Gallstones wrote:And a 4x4 with a winch.
We went up in the hills near El Cajon once with a guy's new 4X4 and he got it stuck. He tried to winch it out and burned the winch up. We finally got hauled out by four Percherons from a nearby ranch. The owner said he did that about once a month in that spot.
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Gallstones2 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:07 pm

Gallstones wrote:...or three or four or fifty.
Plus ammo and tannerite.

and you my dear, do you not have the same :spray:
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Re: "Guns make us safer."

Post by Gallstones » Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:25 pm

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Gallstones wrote:...or three or four or fifty.
Plus ammo and tannerite.

and you my dear, do you not have the same :spray:
Sweetheart, I have three rifles, some ammo and no tannerite (yet).
I do want more. :ab:
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