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The Concealed-Carry Fantasy (NYT fantasy)
New York Times ^
| October 26, 2015
| The Editorial Board
Posted on 10/26/2015 9:36:18 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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What the Times and the Violence Policy Center omit from the data is how many lives were saved or crimes stopped by concealed carry.
To: Brad from Tennessee
The tally by the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group Consider the source
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:38:04 AM PDT
by
MNJohnnie
( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The statistics obsess on ONLY situations where someone dies - when the whole point is concealed carry SAVED LIVES by _nobody_ dying.
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:38:30 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Everyone entering NRA offices come out alive. Not so Planned Parenthood.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
"763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense."
And how many of those were suicides? Based on other data, government data, is should be well over 60%. Since this is presumably dealing with CCW permit holders I bet it is over 80% suicides.
To: Brad from Tennessee
How long will the American people allow these propaganda mills to operate?
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:43:54 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Gosh, this is such a poorly-written editorial that it is almost unreadable. Anyway, the study linked from the editorial says that there were 235,000 defensive uses of firearms in a single year. While this figure is used to contradict the NRA’s figure of 2.5 million, it is still an enormous figure! And the fact that very few of these 235,000 uses required fatally shooting the attacker is a good thing and does not support the NYT’s argument at all.
To: Brad from Tennessee
All it proves to me is that gun free zones don’t work.
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:51:28 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: Brad from Tennessee
The tally by the Violence Policy Center... And with that we know this story is pure horse hillary.
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:51:57 AM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
We all know the best people to advise us on concealed carry and gun control are liberal wussies who wet their panties at the sight of a cloud or a Pop-Tart in the shape of the letter “L”.
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:52:11 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: Brad from Tennessee
So if carrying weapons is not effective in stopping criminals, why do cops carry guns? Do not say they are trained professionals. Most departments have minimal training in the academy and no further mandatory training or re-qualification. Consider the officer in front of the Empire State Building years ago who fire several times hitting the perp once and wounding several bystanders.
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posted on
10/26/2015 9:53:45 AM PDT
by
rey
To: Brad from Tennessee
The Second Amendment was given to the people to protect them from the type of totalitarian scum that inhabits the NYT and the “Violence Policy Center.”
Go to hell, NYT. You are an ENEMY of the Bill Of Rights, the people, and of freedom.
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:01:36 AM PDT
by
TTFlyer
To: Brad from Tennessee
Geesh, who does the editing of the editorial board rantings? This is nearly incoherent. What I glean is (1) the
Times is carefully concealing that the VPC is the premier propaganda spout for firearms confiscation, and (2) that "concealed carry" has suddenly morphed to cover both licensed and illicit carry. And (3) that the amorphous, unnamed "gun lobby" is somehow preventing the VPC from writing more propaganda, although precisely how is left somewhat ambiguous.
However, if data is desired there isn't really much of a shortage as the Times complains. There is, for example, the rather inconvenient phenomenon of plummeting murder rates plotted against increasing rates of concealed carry detailed HERE. Opposed to the sophomoric "You're all a bunch of Rambo wannabes" sneering is cold, hard fact. Pity the Times doesn't deal in that these days.
To: MNJohnnie
Yep, both are rabidly anti-gun and anti-freedom.
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:05:18 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
"The more that sensational gun violence afflicts the nation, the more that the myth of the vigilant citizen packing
a legally permitted concealed weapon, fully prepared to stop the next mass shooter in his tracks, is promoted." How foolish to think that guns can be effective in protecting anyone from violence.
/s
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:11:11 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
To: Brad from Tennessee
since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense"
Not self defense cause the victim had no gun. Also I assume there have been more that 763 people killed!
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:12:45 AM PDT
by
stocksthatgoup
(When the MSM and Elites want your opinion they will give it to you.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
The tally by the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group, Big Media are pathological liars. Here's an example.
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:13:36 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: MNJohnnie
Correction, gun CONFISCATION group.
They want their own private, ex-military armed security details to protect their interests (Soros, Bloomberg, etc.)
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:36:07 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Get over it. The purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to bring down a corrupt government when it gets out of hand.
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:45:01 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Political Correctness is Suppression of Free Speech. Thank the Commies for Political Correctness.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
We are || THIS close to civil war. The first attempts at Federal confiscation will start the blood flowing.
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posted on
10/26/2015 10:51:11 AM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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