[freepatriot32]

when I first started reading this article i was going to use this space to correct all of the FACTS he got wrong but there are about 6 per paragraph and I don't have that kind of time. Maybe some freepers can do a line by line correction and if any freepers give money to the univeristy of connecticut you should probably stop now if this is an example of the typeof "education " they give the students

I will saythis though the 39 000 murders hes talking about in 1993 how many of those do you think were armed and able to defend themselves at the time of thier deaths? probably a dozen maybe the vaste supermajority were unarmed because of the draconian unconstitional gun control laws in almost every city in 1993

[freepatriot32]

ping

[pikachu]

The author would probably confront someone breaking into his domicile with a hand full of tofu.

[speed_addiction]

[Spok]

"mountains of evidence"

This is what passes for facts in the liberal mind.

[vetvetdoug]

When this idiot first referred to people that own weapons legally as gun nuts, he/she/it lost the debate and any credibility in the piece. This gun nut responsibly kept this person's right to freedom of speech free by service in the military.

[odoso]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

-- C.S. Lewis

[Zeroisanumber]

Ignore for a minute that the probability of encountering a burglar dumb enough to enter your house while you are there is incredibly slim...

Guy came into our house at 6 in the evening one night, my roommate knifed the bastard.

[.cnI redruM]

Run a correlation of gun ownership and high crime zones and the author of this piece would be throughly debunked. There are places in America where every 2nd or third household has at least 1 firearm and the crime rate is virtually nil. That's not to say gun ownership isn't also very high in LA, even though higher legal boundaries exist to it there than elsewhere, but the correlation between crime hot spots and gun registrations is statistical fantasy.

[Durus]

You have a point in that almost every sentence is a lie or half truth. Using stats from 93 and 94 is no mistake either. It's deliberate agitprop and should be ignored, but the author should be remembered.

[stevio]

If this was written by a woman you'd have a chance at turning her around by taking her to the range. But since it was written by a girly-man, it's a lost cause.

[GrandEagle]

"Don't confuse me with facts, I've got my mind made up!" Gun nuts are so obsessed with opposing gun control laws that no amount of factual evidence against their position will sway them.

Very interesting statement coming from their camp.
I had a friend once who believed along the same lines as the writer of this "article". I finally told her to place a sign in her front yard clearly stating that there were no firearms on the premises - never were and never will be.

She declined the offer. I wonder why?

Regards,
GE

[need_a_screen_name]

More of the same regurgitated, disproven lies....

[BigCinBigD]

I think I'll buy a new pistol this weekend. :o)

[paul51]

A rational mugger would prefer to give up and flee should his activity lead to conflict

Yeah, and most muggers are rationale. Tell it to that young woman in NYC that got shot the other day.

[spodefly]

I'm not suggesting that people stop owning weapons or that the NRA disband and start crusading for rights that don't kill anyone, like smoking pot for example.

I can tell that this guy has smoked a lot of pot.

[tmp02]

Read the play book:

http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/brainwsh.shtml

It says:
" Another reason for the alignment of psychopolitical activities with the misalignment of insanity is that insanity, itself, is a despised and disgraced state, and anything connected with it is lightly viewed. Thus, a psychopolitical operator, working in the vicinity of an insane person, can refute and disprove any accusations made against him by demonstrating that the family itself is tainted with mental imbalance. This strategy is surprisingly effective in capitalistic countries where insanity is so thoroughly feared that no one would dream of investigating any circumstances in its vicinity. Psychopolitical propaganda works constantly and must work constantly to increase and build up this aura of mystery surrounding insanity, and must emphasize. the horror and hopelessness of insanity in order to excuse non- therapeutic actions taken against the insane. Particularly in capitalistic countries, an insane person has no rights under law. No person who is insane may hold property. No person who is insane may testify. Thus, we have an excellent road along which we can travel toward our certain goal and destiny."

[CSM]

"Unrestricted ownership of weapons essentially follows the tenets of the classical theory of criminology."

I suppose the real life proof of Washington DC, as well as other gun restricting societies, would be proof that this freedom grabbing nut is fact based in his assertions. I suppose I've seen the same circular logic used many times right here on FR, so I shouldn't be shocked.

[Oztrich Boy]

Unrestricted ownership of weapons essentially follows the tenets of the classical theory of criminology citizenship. This theory is hardly modern, developing in the late 1700s -300s through the works of Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham Aristotle.

There.

[speed_addiction]

Next door to my house live the "Reyes Brothers." A group of thug siblings who consider themselves a gang of sorts. They provide for their meager existence buy stealing and dealing small amounts of weed. The braindead bitches who have moved in with them pop out kid after kid for the welfare benifits.

Some tools of mine came out missing from my shed one night. Sitting at my dinner table later I saw one of them enter his house and through the open door I breifly saw one of my power tools. Later that night, I went into that house, jumped up on the bed where one of the was sleeping and sat on his chest. I pressed my M1911 to one of his eyes. I told him that if I wanted my sh!t back where they found it by the time I came home from work the next day and if ANYTHING at all ever came up missing at my house again, I would be back. I would not care if it was they who stole it or not, I would go after them.

Not only did they take all of my stuff back, they now guard my house when I am not there. The last thing they want is for anything to come up missing.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Robert Schiering, I don't really keep guns for burglars, the pups are enough for that.

I keep them for you and your kind.