[gondramB]

"The Centers for Disease Control did an extensive review of various types of gun control: waiting periods, registration and licensing, and bans on certain firearms. It found that the idea that gun control laws have reduced violent crime is simply a myth."

I am against gun control for law abiding adults.

But I have not seen anything like this from the CDC... I wonder what his source is.

[2banana]

Sammy ''The Bull'' Gravano has, by his own admission, sent 19 men to their graves. So it's safe to say that the former underboss of the Gambino crime family knows a thing or two (or 19) about guns and violence.

That's why his remarks about gun control, published in Vanity Fair, have resonance.

"Gun Control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger. We'll see who wins."

-- VANITY FAIR 9/99 page 165 Sammy “the Bull” Gavano

[ZULU]

Read my tagline.

[threeleftsmakearight]

Israel & Switzerland have some of the most lax guns laws in the world and their crime rates are very low...

on the other hand

Brazil & Russia have extremely strict gun laws and their crime rates are very high

[Spok]

It always makes me angry when the CDC chimes in on gun control, which is a political, NOT a public health issue. I guess AIDS, TB, cancer, avian flu, etc., aren't keeping them busy enough. It's just another bureaucracy that has abandoned it's stated mission for politics. It should be defunded.

[Sam Cree]

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[x5452]

The second amendment was designed so that the people could take defense against a tyrannous government, as they had just done against england, and has nothing to do with government run armies, regardless of naming semantics.

[Question_Assumptions]

For those liberals who like to claim that if only gun control were universal in the US and there were fewer guns, it wouldn't be so easy for criminals to get them, Japan has draconian anti-gun laws and it's still possible to find black market guns there if you want one. Let's just say that the fall of the Soviet Union opened up new market opportunities for groups of people well versed in ignoring the law and smuggling goods.

[goldstategop]

What's so horrible about guns? Even John Kerry had to pretend to dress up as a hunter. Liberals bewail assault weapons but it was the musket that won the day at Bunker Hill. Just ask Denny Crane. Liberals can't even hunt. And those who seek to disarm Americans are no friends of freedom.

(Denny Crane: "Gun Control? For Communists. She's A Liberal. Can't Hunt.")

[grayforkbeard]

Second, no law can repeal the law of supply and demand. If there's money to be made selling something, someone will sell it.



That sums up why all prohibition laws don't work. With enough $ and the right connection you can buy a slave. Sex, Drugs and guns are easy.

[mountainlyons]

It is safer in Baghdad where almost every one has a gun than it is in the "gun control" hight crime cities in the US of A.

Happiness is a warm gun and a tight group!

[doggieboy]

I never owned or cared to own a gun. After Katrina hit the "Big Sleazy", my opinion changed. I'm looking at my owners manual for my new Remington 870 12 gauge shotgun as I write this. For Christmas I am getting a Walther P38.

[traviskicks]

Interesting, some expanded thoughts on the matter:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/gunsandcrime.htm

[rhombus]

The myth has it that the Supreme Court, in a case called United States v. Miller, interpreted the Second Amendment -- "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" -- as conferring a special privilege on the National Guard, and not as affirming an individual right.

This was my favorite part. I can't count how many times liberals have given me this National Guard bit.

[xsrdx]

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -- where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."

Oh, now that is good.

[DaveCooper]

BTTT

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

I would remind EVERYONE that "gun control" means hitting what you shoot at. Ain't no law that can impose real or imagined gun control.

[marine86297]

btt