Marg Helenberger's NRA hate quote
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baran_erik — 10 years ago(January 03, 2016 02:57 PM)
The sarcasm went right over your pointy head. smh Did you even read the rest of the post?
I'm a wing nut drone. lol Here's yer sign.
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jcshetler — 12 years ago(November 16, 2013 01:39 PM)
wow. way to blow the quote out of proportion. can you read?
The Dumbing-Down of America
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themadride — 12 years ago(January 13, 2014 07:35 PM)
Calling for violence against law abiding citizens isn't a "difference of opinion".
If I said someone should go rape nanettev55, would that be a "difference of opinion" or would that be an a stupid, dangerous, and pathetic comment? -
eddiewinehosen — 11 years ago(November 16, 2014 04:48 AM)
Not putting anything more then semantics into this but she didn't say someone should go shoot themadride, she said "IF NRA members where the victims of gun crimes we might get legislation" now that's hardly the same as saying someone should shoot you. The first is an opinion on what might happen IF they were the victims, the second is a direct threat and instigation to violence.
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manram24 — 10 years ago(September 27, 2015 07:32 PM)
Yet all the shootings occur in gun free zones, lefties' want more of those so there's that. If only we had more laws passed to restrict guns right? Yet the places that have the strictest gun laws have the most shootings. And we all know criminals will follow laws.
Y'know, I could eat a peach for hours -
baran_erik — 10 years ago(December 30, 2015 11:55 PM)
They ALL do, huh? Care to share your source? Same with your claim that "the places with the strictest gun laws have the most shootings".
Why don't you start here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-study-idUSBRE92617D20130308
Turn off the AM (shortwave?) radio, switch from FAUX "News" and delete the Blaze from your bookmarks, you'll be the smarter for it. -
psalmverse6-844-865746 — 12 years ago(December 20, 2013 09:41 AM)
SHUT THE Front doorCan't we just see the "system" through? It's that Law Enforcement needs weapons. Why must everyone ELSE arm up? I don't get itnot at allwhy must we feel we HAVE to arm ourselves against our fellow man? WHY?
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SRBi922 — 12 years ago(January 02, 2014 01:46 PM)
Many police officers support gun rights, because they know that armed, law-abiding citizens are the best crime deterrent. When a criminal doesn't know if his intended victim has a gun, he is much less likely to try anything. Think about how fast the number of rapes would drop if we started hearing news reports of women pulling guns and shooting theyr attackers. That's an effective way to make a rapist's resolve go limp.
It was a cop from whom I heard a quote that went something like this: "I carry a gun because a cop would be too heavy." -
imdb-15906 — 12 years ago(January 07, 2014 07:16 PM)
Good job, noting the need for evidence. Unfortunately, gun control is such a polarizing issue in the US that both sides tend to stake out a position and then defend that position with no evidence, bad evidence, or biased evidence.
Your statement as written, "More people, especially women and children, are killed in the home with a gun owned by someone in their home" is nonsensical. More what than what? More people are killed than household pets are killed? More people are killed than wounded? More people are killed with a gun than not with a gun? More people are killed by someone in their home than by someone not in their home?
This is a case in which evidence is generally presented selectively, with a bias. One problem is that the number of people "killed in the home" may include suicides. Suicide is worthy of attention, but morally, legally, and psychologically suicide is different from assault by another person. Another problem is the omission of significant correlations, such as that a large fraction of murder victims (around 50%) and murderers (over 80%) have criminal records. In other words, being a criminal is a risk factor for violence, which should not be surprising.
There is also selection bias in that law enforcement organizations collect statistics on assaults, including gun violence, but the statistics on defensive uses of guns are poor. Estimates of the number of defensive gun uses per year, in the US, range from a low of a few hundred up to several million. This selection bias includes the news media, who report on gun violence but rarely on defensive gun use. By analogy, if someone didn't have a car or know anyone who had a car, and all they knew about cars was news media reports of crashes, they'd probably believe that cars are dangerous and should be restricted.