Concealed-carry law threatens order(pants wetting retarded college student hoplophobe barf alert)

http://badgerherald.com ^ | 10 19 05 | Adam Lichtenheld

[libstripper]

His lading source is probably Michael Belisiles, author of Arming America. Oops!! Arming America was proved to be a total fraud and Belisiles was forced to resign from his job as a tenured prefessor at Emory University.

[kjo]

Evidence? Since when does a liberal gun-hater need evidence? It's all about "feeling". The guy "feels" guns are wrong so they're wrong. It's a simple world really. For liberals.

[Jim Verdolini]

This is a case study in simply making it up. About every number or figure in his report is wrong, exagerated, or simply made up!

[LibertarianInExile]

When I went to LI's conservative publication school years back, there was a Badger Herald rep there. How can they now publish this crap?

Somebody needs to get Morton Blackwell rappin' heads up there in Badgerland. I hope this is just a guest columnist instead of a regular, because if he's a regular the whole staff should be embarrassed. Regularly. By GOA members.

[joesnuffy]

Another punk Marxist wannabe kissing UW Madison professors butt... He probably figures on going to grad school there and with his pack of lies masquerading as rational reporting has garnered for himself a nice spot by the liberal fire groveling at the feet of his left wing masters...

Woof Woof.. lap dog boy of the left...

[William Tell]

From the article: "Police, more than anybody, would know how the presence of a handgun endangers all parties, including the gun’s owner — for 12 percent of law enforcement officers killed by firearms are shot to death with their own service weapon."

Absolutely. That is why police departments around the nation have been campaigning so heavily to disarm themselves. NOT!

I believe this statistic reflects the fact that policemen have a greater than average suicide rate. Their death rate on the job is much lower than that of firefighters, I believe, and less than farmers who regularly get chewed up by their machinery.

Also, the author appears to have unwittingly included two different versions of the same study. Originally, it was claimed that a gun in the home was 43 times more likely to kill the owner than a bad guy. Later, when challenged, the author of the study (Kellerman?) reduced the number to 3. This was because he was unable to supply the data.

The misused statistic also conceals the fact that the majority of successful defensive uses of a gun end with no shots being fired. It is estimated that perhaps two million such successful defensive uses occur per year.

[DTwistedSisterS]

"it also gives criminals the means to commit crimes. "


they already have the guns. that's why they're criminals.

yet another reason i'm gonna stay out of the people's repulic of madistan.

[arthurus]

This person really believes that criminals are law abiding folks who will not carry guns if carrying is outlawed?????

[arthurus]

The Communists used to introduce their more blatant lies in Pravda or the local Daily Worker with the phrase "As is well know..." or something similar.

[proud_yank]

Alright Marge, close your eyes, I've got a surprise for you.....

[Shooter 2.5]

TEXAS
2001 Conviction Rates of Concealed Handgun License Holders


OFFENSE
Conviction Count of Licensed Individuals*


Conviction Count of Non-Licensed Individuals**


Percentage of Total Convictions Committed by Licensed Individuals
MURDER (Title 5, Chapter 19)
1


157


0.63%
KIDNAPPING (Title 5, Chapter 20)
0


124


0.00%
SEXUAL ASSAULT (Title 5, Chapter 21)
9


1,359


0.66%
ROBBERY (Title 7, Chapter 29)
0


1,360


0.00%
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (Title 5, Chapter 22)
17


2,259


0.75%
ASSAULT (Title 5, Chapter 22)
54


17,309


0.31%
TERRORISTIC THREAT (Title 5, Chapter 22)
5


1,229


0.41%
BURGLARY (Title 7, Chapter 30)
1


5,675


0.02%
INDECENCY WITH A CHILD (Title 5, Chapter 22)
19


929


2.00%
INDECENT EXPOSURE (Title 5, Chapter 22)
5


543


0.91%
FAIL OR REFUSE TO DISPLAY CONCEALED HANDGUN LICENSE (Subchapter H)
0


0


0.00%
UNLAWFULLY CARRYING HANDGUN BY LICENSE HOLDER (Title 10, Chapter 46)
25


0


100.00%
UNLAWFULLY CARRYING WEAPON (Title 10, Chapter 46)
22


2,905


0.75%
POSSESSION OF COMPONENTS OF EXPLOSIVES (Title 10, Chapter 46)
0


4


0.00%
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY FELON
(WEAPONS FREE ZONE) (Title 10, Chapter 46)
0


1


0.00%
DEADLY CONDUCT DISCHARGE FIREARM
(Title 10, Chapter 46)
1


102


0.97%
HOAX BOMBS (Title 10, Chapter 46)
0


2


0.00%
MAKE FIREARM ACCESSIBLE TO CHILD DEATH/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY (Title 10, Chapter 46)
0


5


0.00%
HARASSMENT (Title 5, Chapter 22)
21


1,013


2.03%
COERCE SOLICIT INDUCE GANG MEMBERSHIP
(Title 5, Chapter 22)
0


94


0.00%

TOTAL CONVICTED OFFENSES

180


35,070


0.51064%

[eleni121]

He probably figures on going to grad school there and with his pack of lies...

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And even worse he will replicate himself as a "professor" -providing more propaganda fodder for the next generation of mushheads. Faculty hiring committees are notorious for making sure that there is absolutely no deviance from the party line...the Marxist/Socialist party line by hiring only those who will tow the line.

[festus]

What he lacks in logic he makes up for in blind zeal.

[snowstorm12]

He's kinda cute. It's too bad he's an idiot.

[LibTeeth]

Re: "That might be true sometimes, but most of the time it would seem that brandishing a gun will take the situation from bloody nose to nothing happened at all."

I find that when I carry a gun I tend to avoid situations, mainly because while carrying I tend to have a heightened sense of situations to avoid. The anonymity of my car tends to nurture aggression more than carrying a sidearm. When I'm not driving my car, I am at those times either a pedestrian or a bicyclist. But that doesn't keeping the down the automotive urge to run over idiot pedestrians and bicyclists who desperately need to experience the exhilaration of natural selective encounters.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Adam. I dare you to fill your wallet with money. Wear some nice lookin' expensive clothing.

Get thee hence to Milwaukee. Drive around until you find some of the .... seedier .... areas.

Get out of your car. Throw your keys into the lake and start walkin' around. Alone. At night.

I double dare you, you weenie.

[B4Ranch]

This puppy is a eunuch.

[BigTom85]

The kid is recieving a brain washing courtesy of our university system. He makes claims with out using and stats to back his stuff up. Im sure he will be given an A+++++ by his professors if he hands this in as a paper or homework assignment. He just needs to be laughed at.

Political Science and African Studies?? Would you like fries with that? Would you like cheese on that burger?

[B4Ranch]

Adam, if you ever get your butt stomped by two or three men as husky as you are, you will appreciate the fact that with a small handgun you could have prevented your bleeding and unconsciousness in that back alley by just exposing the weapon in the holster.

[HP8753]

John Lott, whose linking of concealed-carry laws to lower crime rates has been frequently debunked by a multitude of esteemed scholars and pro-gun criminologists.

Please Mr. Lick-N-hold,Name one!!!