Caledvwlch
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I agree, but this kind of thinking's anathema to the gun lobby.
Exactly. It's gun-grabbing liberal-speak.
I agree, but this kind of thinking's anathema to the gun lobby.
Exactly. It's gun-grabbing liberal-speak.
Little-known fact: Using the words "federal gun law" in his earshot will render Wayne LaPierre into a frothing rabid werewolf.
In NH you pay ten bucks on the spot, wait about a week, and get your concealed carry permit in the mail.
That's...it.
That's why New Hampshire is such a crime ridden hell-hole. lain:
Maybe we secular baby-eating New Englanders have figured something out that the Bible Belt could stand to learn from.
It's probably because violence tends to correlate with poverty, and New England has somewhat higher median incomes and that sort of thing.
Maybe we secular baby-eating New Englanders have figured something out that the Bible Belt could stand to learn from.:think:
It's probably because violence tends to correlate with poverty, and New England has somewhat higher median incomes and that sort of thing.
More guns = Less crime?
Which is a crock, by the way. Tidy meme, but a crock.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/29/more-guns-less-crime-not-exactly/
Better education as well along with lower church attendance. Huh.
Apparently not so in Illinois?
Who said there were no guns in Illinois?
There are a plethora of stringent gun laws in Illinois.
But lots of guns. That's the whole point, right?:think:
More guns=less crime.
Isn't the implication that guns themselves inherently lead to a safer place? That whole "armed society is a polite society" claptrap?
Or maybe, just maybe, this oh-so-simple prebaked-for-NRA formula isn't as brilliant as people seem to think.
That is not the implication. Since criminals and mad men will always have weapons I feel safer if I have a way to protect myself from them. It is just that simple.
You see conspiracies of conservative evil everywhere you turn.
No, what I see is bad thinking. "More guns less crime" simply makes no sense.
consider this scenario: a nut with a gun comes onto a gun-free zone and starts shooting people
who stops him?
a. a guy with a knife
b. a guy who knows kung fu
c. a guy who tells him "Hey! You can't do that here! This is a gun-free zone!"
d. a guy with a gun
The problem is, that's the rare case. That's the outlier. If you own a gun, you are more likely to hurt yourself or someone you didn't intend to than you are to stop a crime.