Why People Fear Guns

Detroit News ^ | January 02, 2004 | John R. Lott Jr.

[Howie]

Good one!!!!!

[Texas Eagle]

There is a difference between fear and having a healthy respect for something.

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[ConservativeMan55]

If people fear guns its because they don't know any better.

[MarkeyD]

--In February, 2002, the South Bend, Indiana Tribune reported the story of an 11-year-old boy who shot and killed a man holding a box cutter to his grandmother's neck. Trained to use a firearm, the boy killed the assailant in one shot, even though the man was using his grandmother as a shield.

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[ConservativeMan55]

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[MarkeyD]

Exactly. The few gun control nuts I've met don't get it when I tell them as a child (12), my friends and I would have BB gun fights, actually shooting each other. We'd each take turns defending a hill in the neighborhood. But on those days we'd sneak the 22's and shotguns out of the house, we were smart enough not to turn those on each other. But we sure killed a lot of empty bottles!

[neverdem]

Already posted here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1050717/posts

[Federalist 78]

Every year, Treasury puts out a report on the top 10 guns used in crime, and each report serves as the basis for dozens of news stories. But why not also provide a report--at least once--on the top 10 guns used defensively? Similarly, numerous government reports estimate the cost of injuries from guns, but none measures the number of injuries prevented when guns are used defensively.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison ^{Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack}

R.J. Rummel made the following comment in a speech given to the ABA National Security Conference on "The Rule of Law in United States Foreign Policy and the New World Order. Washington, D.C., October 10-11, 1991:

Today, we can extend the idea of peace through democracy to cover freedom from government genocide and mass murder. But to do so requires overcoming incredible mass ignorance even about the megamurders for which authoritarian and totalitarian governments have been responsible. Of course, everyone knows about the Nazi genocide.

Elsewhere on his website,^{Freedom Virtually Ends Genocide And Mass Murder} he states:

By shooting, drowning, burying alive, stabbing, torture, beating, suffocation, starvation, exposure, poison, crushing, and other countless ways that lives can be wiped out, governments have killed unarmed and helpless ^{The Revolutionary Second Amendment}people. Intentionally. With forethought. This is murder. It is democide.

...democide is a government's murder of people for whatever reason; genocide is the murder of people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, or language.

Part of this reluctance to call a government or its ruler a murderer comes from the fact that to do so is a new and strange thought. Democide is a black hole in our textbooks, college teaching, and social science research. Few people know the extent to which governments murder people.

Note that at the workers' level, this was not an act of massacre by the uneducated, undisciplined masses, ordinary folk easily misled and aroused. As with the Holocaust, when Nazi killing squads were often led and composed of Ph.Ds and other professionals, the claims of the powerful and authoritative easily swayed the well educated to murder. In the Great Genocide, Hutu lawyers, teachers, professors, medical doctors, journalists, and other professionals, made their contribution to the methodical annihilation of the Tutsi or defiant Hutu.

What connects all these cases of democide is this: as a government's power is more unrestrained, as its power reaches into all the corners of culture and society, the more likely it is to kill its own citizens. As a governing elite has the power to do whatever it wants, whether to satisfy its most personal wishes, or to pursue what it believes is right and true, it may do so whatever the cost in lives. Here, power is the necessary condition for mass murder. Once an elite has full authority, other causes and conditions can operate to bring about the immediate genocide, terrorism, massacres, or whatever killing the members of an elite feel is warranted.

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If people fear guns its because they don't know any better

Fear may be justifiable if you are looking into the barrel of a weapon that is being held by someone with malevolent intentions.

[ConservativeMan55]

Thats why you carry your own gun.

[ConservativeMan55]

Make it a law that everybody has to carry a gun.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If that is wonderwoman_small.
I do not want to see wonderwoman_large.

[ConservativeMan55]

LOL

[verity]

Thats why you carry your own gun.

Will not do much good if he/she is pointing and you are only carrying! ;~)

[EsclavoDeCristo]

Great article. Thanks for the post. Do you know where I could find this article at another website besides fox? I'd like to forward it along to some liberal/socialist folks I know but if they see its from FoxNews.Com they'll chuck it into the circular file without even reading it. They thing Fox is the most biased news source on the planet (they've had too much brainwashing by the liberal machine and CNN).

[ConservativeMan55]

Well lets think about this...

They are going to be pointing the gun at you no matter what right?

Would you rather have a gun on you or not?

Thats your choice. Having that gun on you doesn't increase your chance of being mugged or robbed.

[WorkingClassFilth]

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