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Finally A Gun Is Used To Stop A Crime Instead Of Killing Innocent People
Business Insider ^ | 02Mar13 | Henry Blodget

Posted on 03/02/2013 2:40:57 PM PST by qaz123

One of the most common and persuasive arguments against gun control is that guns offer a means with which good guys can protect themselves from bad guys.

In practice, unfortunately, the guns that good guys own to protect themselves from bad guys too often end up killing the good guys' kids or wives or the good guys themselves (either via suicide, accident, or, in some cases, because they're grabbed by the bad guys and used against the good guys). Or, as in the case of Florida teen Trayvon Martin, the guns kill people who the good guys think are bad guys but who aren't actually bad guys.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment
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To: Spartan79
The author of this article is a fool.

Nah. this is just another semi-truth satire written from the leftist point of view, right? A joke, I suppose--can't be real reporting, eh?

41 posted on 03/02/2013 9:55:44 PM PST by imardmd1 (An armed society is a polite society -- but dangerous for the fool --)
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To: qaz123

Business Insider features lots of far left nutjobs.


42 posted on 03/02/2013 9:59:02 PM PST by Lazamataz (Republicans have the same policies as the Democrats, except for the part where they win elections.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Blodget is yet another Ivy League graduate who thinks that you little people are getting in the way of the perfect world they could create if only everyone just listened to the graduates of Ivy League schools.

He deserves ridicule and humiliations galore, just like the rest of his educational cohort of pecksniffs.


43 posted on 03/03/2013 12:17:06 AM PST by NVDave
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Years ago, The American Rifleman used to publish a monthly column, The Armed Citizen, that published clippings from all over the country. I’m sure that is still done online somewhere.

If I didn’t read anything else in TAR, I read that column.

One mistake I’ve often seen Citizen Journalists make is not publishing regularly. You have to put new stuff on your blog most every day to keep folks coming back.

They start out ok, but then taper off. If no new stuff shows up on your blog, then readers quit checking on it, and readership - and credibility - declines.


44 posted on 03/03/2013 1:50:10 AM PST by abb
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To: qaz123
This guy is full of sh**. His whole article is nothing more than left wing talking points against owning a gun for self defense. The FBI crime report, which comes out every 2 years, says, and has said for many, many years, that from 2 million to 3 million crimes are stopped and lives saved due to private ownership of firearms. In the vast majority of those cases the law abiding citizens didn't even have to fire a shot, just displaying the weapon sent the criminals running.

Why these facts are not used by conservative politicians to squash the liberals BS arguments I have no idea except that most of them aren't conservative at all and wish for the same end to our constitution as do the liberals.

45 posted on 03/03/2013 11:13:42 AM PST by calex59
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To: abb
Years ago, The American Rifleman used to publish a monthly column, The Armed Citizen, that published clippings from all over the country. I’m sure that is still done online somewhere.

It is still done where it has always been done, in the American Rifleman, and I assume, the American Hunter, two of their publications that members get(their choice one or the other)with membership. The Armed Citizen is still going strong, but you can't expect a liberal to know that or even acknowledge it.

46 posted on 03/03/2013 11:36:14 AM PST by calex59
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To: abb; publius911; qaz123
Years ago, The American Rifleman used to publish a monthly column, The Armed Citizen, that published clippings from all over the country. I’m sure that is still done online somewhere.

If I didn’t read anything else in TAR, I read that column.

One mistake I’ve often seen Citizen Journalists make is not publishing regularly. You have to put new stuff on your blog most every day to keep folks coming back.

They start out ok, but then taper off. If no new stuff shows up on your blog, then readers quit checking on it, and readership - and credibility - declines.

Excellent response, abb. You were exactly the one to ask, even more - for the American Rifleman reference - than I had known.
Pinging the FReepers who raised the original question . . .

47 posted on 03/04/2013 3:04:00 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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