This is almost a month old, but I didn't see it posted. I haven't read Lott's book, but this article does a decent job of going over it. I had never heard of the Claremont Institute until I was reading something about Pat Sajak. Apparently he is on the board of directors there.
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John Lott book *bang
2 posted on
11/09/2003 10:10:56 PM PST by
SteveH
To: Nick The Freeper
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3 posted on
11/09/2003 10:27:27 PM PST by
GeronL
(Visit www.geocities.com/geronl)
To: Nick The Freeper
Has there ever been another person who has done as much research on this issue as John Lott? People who have the kind of mind that can keep all these facts straight amaze me.
I hope he never quits.
5 posted on
11/09/2003 10:51:04 PM PST by
basil
To: Nick The Freeper
no empirical evidence that such restrictions have any positive effect on accidental gun deaths, and such restrictions may well render a weapon at home useless when most needed. An "unloaded" gun is the most dangerous gun of all.
After all, you don't "need" a gun until you really "need" a gun.
6 posted on
11/09/2003 11:05:45 PM PST by
clee1
(Where's the beef???)
To: Nick The Freeper
... forcefully ground her heel into my foot to signal me to stop pursuing the issue..
A health care worker who doesn't want to be told the truth shouldn't be in health care. "Wives, obey your husbands."
To: Nick The Freeper
A building contractor, on his way home from work, picked up three young hitchhikers. He fixed them a steak dinner at his house and was preparing to offer them jobs. Great anecdote, but I'm a bit suspicious of the building contractor's motives. This was John Wayne Gacy's M.O.
To: Nick The Freeper
ping
9 posted on
11/10/2003 7:01:58 AM PST by
chmst
To: Nick The Freeper
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Figures show that shooting incidents across England and Wales rose by 35% from 17,589 in 2000-2001 to 22,314 last year.
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A government that fears arms in the hands of its people should also fear the rope!
--General Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA
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Any government that would attempt to disarm its people is despotic;
and any people that would submit to it deserve to be slaves!
--Stephen F. Austin, 1835
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There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.
--Marcus Tulius Cicero, 106-53 BC
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Why Commies Hate Guns
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You cannot license a right and still expect it to be treated like a right.
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A concealed-carry law "levels the playing field between the criminals and the victims," Bailey said Current law puts citizens at a disadvantage because criminals don't obey the laws, he said.
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The right to self defense should not stop at the front door.
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Then-Homicide Inspector Gil Hill, who went on to become a city councilman, said this about the killing: "I'm always glad when assholes and bullets meet."
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I dont know of anybody that is against the war, except terrorists.
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One of the reasons that our soldiers are put in harms way in other countries like (Iraq) is because their government has gone bad.
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The evils of gun control schemes. We need to believe in the preservation of firearms ownership.
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A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
One Comma or Three? The Final (ratified) version had only one comma according to the Library of Congress and Government Printing Office.
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The warning sign on the horizon today is the downplaying of or drift away from self-defense. Self defense is the job of the individual not the government.
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Any individual who works to disarm people or stop people from having tools to defend themselves is the blame or the poblem.
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Look at the nations where the people had the power they werent persecuted by their government. All the other governments had disarmed subjects.
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
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When they have defense tools equal to the attackers they have the power to defend themselves.
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Once people accept being disarmed, they become surprising easy to control and kill.
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Only government officials my carry firearms. New models of firearms are dangerous by their very nature and should be posssessed by well known people only. All sales of firearms must be reported to the government. Does this sound familiar?
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What happens when self defense is against the law? Defenseless citizens It cant happen here.
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If you want to stop criminals you have to speak to criminals in a language they understand. If they they want to use violence against you then you have to use violence against them.
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What gun control doesn't do: Gun control advocates have long argued that regulation is needed to prevent loss of life. Steven Martinovich says that 24 000 gun laws don't seem to have much of an impact.
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To: Nick The Freeper
Thank you very much for posting this review. BTTT
13 posted on
11/10/2003 9:58:07 AM PST by
neverdem
(Say a prayer for New York both for it's lefty statism and the probability the city will be hit again)
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