Any gun instructor will tell anyone incapable of mastering themselves to
stay away from guns...
Also, apparently, Mr Genen ignored my prior post last week that included
the results of a study by Handgun Control, Inc., the leading anti-gun
lobbying group out there. The people they commissioned to do the study
(Profs at the U of Chicago) found from FBI data collected between 1979
and 1995 that violent crime dropped an average of 8% in states that
enacted "right to carry" concealed weapons laws in 1994, to take effect
Jan 1 1995. Considering that the FBI reported a 3% drop in violent crime
nationwide, the 18 states with these laws make up 80% of the reported
drop, while the remaining 32 states violent crime rates only dropped an
average of .6%. I think that the difference between 8% and .6% in a pool
in the tens of thousands is statistically significant, don't you?
>
> Indeed. Witness the (previously quoted) fact that US cops are twice as
> likely as a civilian to shoot an innocent bystander. Taking the cops' guns
> away would save a few hunded lives every year.
>
> > They frequently end up shooting other family
> > members or themselves.
>
> Indeed, US cops are notorious for killing themselves with their service
> weapons (hence the oft-quoted statistic that cops are far more likely to
> be shot with their own guns than by a criminal). But if you're referring
> to the notorious Kellerman 'study' I think you should read one of the
> numerous critiques. It doesn't say what you seem to think it says.
>
> > It's possible that the issue of paranoia in our society is entering the
> > minds of some of you, as well as the numerous psycho-sexual implications
> > of gun collecting,
>
> You're really big on this "psycho-sexual" stuff, aren't you? Personally
> when I'm holding a gun sex is normally the last thing I'm thinking of; I'm
> much more concerned with safe gun-handling. Are you sure this isn't just
> something you're projecting on others?
>
> And you have read what Freud wrote about people who are afraid of guns,
> haven't you?
>
> Mark
What did he say? I can always use another quote when I run into anti gun
neurotics...
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