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With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat? (+video)
Christian Science Monitor ^
| May 8, 2013
| Patrik Jonsson
Posted on 05/09/2013 12:15:07 PM PDT by neverdem
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IMHO, I think this rat gun grabbing is a Godsend. The stupid party actually needs this overeach by the rats.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:15:07 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
is the imagined threat common crime or our government?
There is a double meaning in the article’s title that I am sure is intentional.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:17:22 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(2013: - Obama vs America. The new cold war)
To: neverdem
As far as I know, Communism has been a common enemy all my life.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:18:30 PM PDT
by
mosaicwolf
(Strength and Honor)
To: neverdem
The run on guns and ammunition has nothing to do with a perceived threat from criminals, at least not the garden variety type.
The people that are stocking up are thinking of bigger threats.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:18:30 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: llevrok
Imagined threat? Gun violence is down BECAUSE we’re armed.
Holy hopping hares! Are they REALLY this clueless?
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:18:56 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: neverdem
This is like saying “Why are we vaccinating our kids against polio? Nobody has polio!”
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:19:38 PM PDT
by
mwilli20
(BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:19:48 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
To: neverdem
Treat black crime statistics separately, and the US comes in the middle of all those other countries.
Why are blacks so violent?
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:20:45 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
To: neverdem
“The violence has dropped, meanwhile, even as gun ownership has increased.”
And crime and gun violence has dropped MORE in States that passed conceal carry permit legislation than it has in States that did not.
Sort of like if a corrupt town hires a go-getter Police Chief and he makes a lot of arrests - guess what? According to the way they count it - CRIME GOES UP. If a crime goes unreported and a criminal unarrested - it doesn't count towards crime statistics.
Currently violent crime has not been this low since 1963. It peaked in the early 1990’s (IIRC) and has been going down for the last 20 years or so.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:21:56 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
To: neverdem
That’s right, Monitor, ignore the media conspiracy to make people think gun crimes are at epidemic levels.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:21:56 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: neverdem
The DNC has won the culture war.
The threat to the working class is real.
US prisons over flow with convicted violent democrats.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:22:35 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
To: mosaicwolf
I think “totalitarianism” is the threat we’re all concerned about, whether it’s communist, fascist or “other.” We’re all fearful of what will happen when the economy hits bottom and our “friendly” government reaches out to “help” us.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That is the million dollar question but one that will never be addressed. If the USA did not have black crime, it would be a paradise.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:39:20 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: neverdem
There is always a threat and it isn't imaginary.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:40:35 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; All
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:41:08 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
To: neverdem
They got this exactly ass backwards.
Instead it should read that “The states are “disarming” Americans in light of an imagined threat.”
The real threat comes from the state.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:43:07 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Perhaps CRIMINAL CONTROL is the reason? New York's murder rate dropped like a rock when Giuliani took over. That is because he locked up murderers and criminals who likely would at some point murder. Criminal control, not gun control, saves lives.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
” Treat black crime statistics separately, and the US comes in the middle of all those other countries.
Why are blacks so violent?”
You can extrapolate several reasons from the statistics.
A broken family structure (no father/single mother)
The father is missing/effectively displaced by the state as a stabilizing influence.
The state rewards multiple unwed births or offers a convenient way out. See Gosnell case for more info.
Also read “The Making of a Slave”
http://www.amazon.com/The-Making-Slave-Willie-Lynch/dp/1607961431
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:46:40 PM PDT
by
Polynikes
(What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
To: neverdem
With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat? (+video) Is an armed America driving down gun violence?
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:47:13 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
To: neverdem
With gun violence down, is America arming against an imagined threat?
No.
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posted on
05/09/2013 12:53:23 PM PDT
by
Bratch
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