A recent Associated Press story highlighted the push by the NRA to loosen gun laws across the country.Kowtowing to the pressure of the NRA, legislators in a number of states have passed laws that work against the interests of public safety and well-being.
Then, as if we needed more examples of incidents that are in the news daily, they list a few good ones.
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- And in Alabama, a concealed weapons permit holder armed with a small arsenal that included a handgun, two assault rifles, and a shotgun, shot and killed his mother, his grandparents, his aunt and uncle and then drove around town spraying bullets. In all, 10 people died before he turned a gun on himself.
Isn't it extremely telling that these kinds of stories are the daily fare of the main stream media while the so-called DGUs are extremely rare? And from there, isn't it obvious that more and more guns is not the answer?
Gun violence has real world results that, sadly, are measured in injury and death. Shame on these legislators who have moved to put more guns into our communities and onto our streets. The results will predictably be more gun injuries and more gun deaths.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
Mikeb: "Shame on these legislators who have moved to put more guns into our communities and onto our streets. The results will predictably be more gun injuries and more gun deaths."
ReplyDelete"The results will predictably be"...? Once again we see SPECULATION when there should be facts. CCW reform is over ten years old in some states -- WHERE are the actual facts showing "more gun injuries and more gun deaths" as a result? Something more than anecdotes, which can be used either way.
FishyJay - It's the same old tired "THE SKY IS FALLING" fearmongering rhetoric the anti-gunners have been parroting for decades now.
ReplyDeleteEach and every time, as reality proves their speculation wrong, they look more and more irrelevant and desperate.
"Shame on these legislators who have moved to put more guns into our communities and onto our streets. The results will predictably be more gun injuries and more gun deaths."
ReplyDeleteOops -- that was not actually Mikeb. That was from The New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, as quoted by Mikeb.
Nonetheless, here is another claim that "the results will predictably be more gun injuries and more gun deaths," contrasted with the ACTUAL results.
Marta crime rate falls in wake of gun law
http://tinyurl.com/y8hgvfq
Isn't it extremely telling that these kinds of stories are the daily fare of the main stream media while the so-called DGUs are extremely rare?
ReplyDeleteDGU reports in the media are far more rare than actual DGU's. For a DGU to make the news, it is usually required that someone be injured, or at least shots fired.
Shame on these legislators who have moved to put more guns into our communities and onto our streets. The results will predictably be more gun injuries and more gun deaths.
Wouuld that be like when they began to allow guns on the Atlanta bus system, and murders increased from 2 to zero...oh, wait...But assaults increased from 91 to 71..um....
I've not found any compelling evidence of a gun restriction that made crime go down, or reducing restrictions that made violent crime go up. (Can you find some?) Even the antis can't find a way to make statistics say that carry licenses make crime go up, at best they can say that crime didn't go down, or point to individual incidents that prove that 4 to 5 million CCW holders aren't all perfect.
Sevesteen, You're right about the majority of DGUs going unreported.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree also that my argument could use some solid statistics to support it. I realize I'm a little heavy on the "common sense" and a little light on the stats.
I realize I'm a little heavy on the "common sense" and a little light on the stats.
ReplyDeleteNot your fault, really. The main anti-gun groups are as well, they aren't giving you anything to work with. Do you think these facts exist, and there is some reason the Bradys aren't publishing?
It is not just the arguments, but the method of argument that has strengthened my belief in "more legal guns, less crime". Facts presented by pro-gun sources usually have a neutral source aren't worded in tricky ways and are based on statistics. Anti-gun sources avoid statistics and when they use them are easily debunked. It is very similar to creationists vs. evolution--"Common sense says life is to complicated to happen by chance, therefore dispite contrary evidence, we are correct".
Sevesteen - You're right, MikeB and his ilk have little choice. The facts supporting their position simply don't exist, which is why MikeB doesn't bring facts to the table to bolster his position.
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