High crime urban areas and neighborhoods with large minority populations have the greatest reductions in violent crime when citizens are legally allowed to carry concealed handguns.What's your opinion? Does that make sense to you?
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How fascinating that Lott discusses trends and statistics, and you can only point to individual instances. I guess when your n=1, you manage to convince yourself of a 100% correlation?
ReplyDeleteFascinating view you have on the world. I'm sorry you're too close-minded to see how you cherry pick items that fit your worldview, and ignore or dismiss those that don't. If you actually want to change anyone's mind, the first step is to actually have an open mind yourself.
Lott is, of course, a fraud.
ReplyDeleteLott is, of course, a fraud.
ReplyDeleteKinda like Guy Cabot huh?
Certainly like Addison Laurent, Mikey W.
ReplyDeleteHey, that's the wrong Anonymous, Guy. I'm the one you've been calling Mike W. I've almost gotten used to it, so it feels sort of wrong for you to call someone else by that name.
ReplyDeleteNo you're not. I was the anonymous that Guy was calling Mike W.
ReplyDeleteI'm the commentator formerly known as Anonymous that Jade once called Mike W.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that places with large minority populations (Chicago, Philly, etc) are rife with gun-banning politicians. And if you manage to jump through all the hoops to buy a gun, you usually have to appeal to the racist, gun-banning police chief on the corner for permission to carry that gun.
ReplyDeleteLike NOLA.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous (one of them) said, "I'm sorry you're too close-minded to see how you cherry pick items that fit your worldview, and ignore or dismiss those that don't."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess I do that. But, the fact remains the frequency of Google or Yahoo searched stories about DGUs is about 100 times less than those of illigitimate gun violence.
I really strive to keep the open mind, but the proportions are damning for your side.
I really strive to keep the open mind,
ReplyDelete*cough*bullshit*cough*
Considering that minorities (blacks) are disproportionately the victims of violent crime it is perfectly logical to say that they should arm themselves with an effective means of self-defense.
ReplyDeleteI'm the commentator formerly known as Anonymous that Jade once called Mike W.
ReplyDeleteApparently Guy Cabot is both confused and has an obsession with Mike W.
MikeB, not every DGU will end with the gun being fired and a suspect (criminal) being killed or wounded. Many of them involve nothing more than the intended victim drawing their gun from the holster, or pulling it from the nightstand. The criminal leaves to find easier prey.
ReplyDeleteHow do you think the news is going to report that? Especially when they have a "real" shooting, where somebody robbed a liquor store, or shot up a daycare.
If it bleeds, it leads.
Anonymous explained how gun owners often have no regard for the 4 Rules of Gun Safety.
ReplyDelete"Many of them involve nothing more than the intended victim drawing their gun from the holster, or pulling it from the nightstand. The criminal leaves to find easier prey."
I just learned on The Truth About Guns recently that you shouldn't do that. The aiming of the gun must be followed by the pulling of the trigger, otherwise you had no need to aim the gun in the first place.
What we do have plenty of is illegal brandishing in order to threaten. These are criminal acts not DGUs, but don't tell John Lott.
"I just learned on The Truth About Guns recently that you shouldn't do that. The aiming of the gun must be followed by the pulling of the trigger, otherwise you had no need to aim the gun in the first place."
ReplyDeleteThen either you learned it 'wrong,' read it incorrectly, or they are mistating it. What you described could potentially be murder.
If you draw and the threat ceases, you do not need to fire. If you draw and the threat ceases and you fire anyway, you have committed murder.
There is no requirement that one must shoot just because they drew. The advice that they were hopefully imparting was, do not hesitate. If a man is threatening your life and you draw and he hasn't immediately ceased his actions, do not hestitate at that moment to immediately fire.
Brandishing is legal, in the same way the shooting someone is legal--in justifiable self-defense. It isn't considered brandishing to draw the weapon that instance, just like it isn't considered murder if you are forced to shoot someone to save your life and they die.
Are you purposefully being daft?