"Remember that the pro-gun lobby has the benefit of monetary support from firearm manufacturers who have a great financial stake in defeating gun control legislation." No, they don't. Remember Smith & Wesson? They were the largest US firearm manufacturer. One of those huge corporate behemoths - with gross sales slightly lower than Ben&Jerry's Ice Cream. (Mistaken assumption #1 - the gun manufacturers aren't terribly large, and they don't have the billions of dollars to throw around that, for example, the tobacco companies do.) In any case, back during the Clinton Administration, S&W thought that it'd be good business to voluntarily sign …
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Scholars engaged in serious criminological research into "gun control" have found themselves forced, often very reluctantly, into four largely negative propositions. First, there is no persuasive evidence that gun ownership causes ordinary, responsible, law abiding adults to murder or engage in any other criminal behavior -- though guns can facilitate crime by those who were independently inclined toward it. Second, the value of firearms in defending victims has been greatly underestimated. Third, gun controls are innately very difficult to enforce. The difficulty of enforcement crucially undercuts the violence-reductive potential of gun laws. Unfortunately, an almost perfect inverse correlation exists between those …
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You know, I've been trying hard to find a polite way to respond to Maria's last. But there isn't one. Seems that she thinks that the problem is that we're violent, knuckle-dragging, neanderthals, who have no place in a civilized society. She calls us bigots and hypocrites, while simultaneously calling us violent, racist, and inhumane. She clearly demonstrates a large part of the problem - it's not so much guns that she hates, as gun owners. She knows zilch about us, but she feels free to accuse of every vile thing she can imagine, based on no more than her own …
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http://www.jpfo.org/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm The Common Thread: Rage In my experience, the common thread in anti-gun people is rage. Either anti-gun people harbor more rage than others, or they're less able to cope with it appropriately. Because they can't handle their own feelings of rage, they are forced to use defense mechanisms in an unhealthy manner. Because they wrongly perceive others as seeking to harm them, they advocate the disarmament of ordinary people who have no desire to harm anyone. So why do anti-gun people have so much rage and why are they unable to deal with it in appropriate ways? ... Identity as …
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Fifty years ago, the medical profession used to think that long distance running was bad for you, because it resulted in an enlarged heart and an abnormally low pulse rate - symptoms that were linked to heart disease in sedentary people. Today, we understand that an enlarged heart and slow pulse is not a symptom of heart disease in someone who engages in high levels of aerobic activity. We've learned that the presence of an enlarged heart is shared by two distinct populations who have very little in common. In other words, we are no longer so ignorant as to believe …
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