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• • 26 Sep 07
  • 1:06 pm

  Laura Washington writes: "While blacks make up about 13 percent of the nation’s population, they comprised 49 percent of all murder victims." Like it or not, blacks are mostly being killed by blacks so while blacks make up a disproportionate population of victims, they likewise make up a disproportionate population of perpetrators. Don't just take my word for it: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm You'll garner more credibility if you are honest in your use of stats instead of selective use that only benefits your (misguided) cause. --MuzzleBlast

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• • 26 Sep 07
  • 4:18 pm

  stopgunviolence asks: "so many of you are so quick to defend your gun rights but you don’t stop to think that there are laws we need that would not impact you but would impact the terrible violence we have in the US." *All* of the violence is already illegal. What is to be gained by passing more ineffective laws making it doubly or triply illegal? "each of you who are so quick to say we don’t need any new laws (because the violence has not yet touched you) need to write back and tell us what YOU are doing to help …

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• • 05 Oct 07
  • 7:28 pm

  A bit-o-substitution from what Major Major sez: It’s a quaint bit of sophistry to refer to “gasoline purchasers” as if they all are, by definition, upstanding law-abiding citizens, and their “arsonist” counter-parts are all, again, by definition, evil cold-blooded sociopaths, when in fact all of them, the citizens and the sociopaths, are gasoline “owners”. Ownership doesn’t necessarily confer respectability upon the owner, as any arsonist owner’s crimes have shown. Making more fuel more easily available simply compounds the problem. Restricting the ownership of gasoline will also restrict the commission of gas-related arson. But then, restricting the ownership of anything in this …

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