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Jepsen, Other AGs Ask Congress To Fund Gun Violence Studies
Hartford Courant ^ | May 25,2016 | Russell Blair

Posted on 05/25/2016 4:42:19 AM PDT by Biggirl

George Jepsen and 13 other state attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday asking them to direct funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the causes and prevention of gun-related injuries and death. "There is no time to waste," they wrote. "As the chief civil or criminal law enforcement officers of our respective states, we are charged with keeping our communities safe, and we need evidence-based strategies to combat the epidemic of gun violence that is ravaging our families and communities."

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: congress; guns; jepsen
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1 posted on 05/25/2016 4:42:20 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl
urban thugs in RAT controlled cities are the cause. now give me the money!
2 posted on 05/25/2016 4:49:21 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Biggirl

Are these people being paid off?


3 posted on 05/25/2016 4:49:24 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Biggirl

Jepsen is a vile human being.


4 posted on 05/25/2016 4:49:41 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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"As the chief civil or criminal law enforcement officers of our respective states, we are charged with keeping our communities safe, and we need evidence-based strategies to combat the epidemic of gun violence that is ravaging our families and communities."

I have several evidence-based strategies:

1. Killers who are executed for their crimes have a recidivism rate of zero. Permanently removing these predators from the population is proven to leave the community safer.

2. Life without parole is not quite as sure a solution as the death penalty, and those predators from time to time escape and kill again, but that remains the second best option for keeping communities safe from violent thugs.

3. While short of the above options, extremely long prison sentences provide a "warehouse option" that stores dangerous people in a safe location, again with proven results in reducing the danger they present to decent people in the community.

Those aren't the "evidence-based strategies" that these liberals wanted to hear? I guess the purpose of the demanded research is to create evidence supporting the answers that have already been endorsed by democrats, not to make communities safer.

5 posted on 05/25/2016 4:52:39 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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I thought Congress stopped the CDC from spending money on such studies 20 or 30 years ago.


6 posted on 05/25/2016 4:55:20 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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Yes, by all means, that’s just what we need - yet ANOTHER study of ‘gun violence’ just like all the other studies of ‘gun violence’.

And every one of them funneling large sums of cash to a lot of airy-fairy, pseudo-intellectual, half-arsed ‘scientists’ who made up their minds on the issue several years ago.


7 posted on 05/25/2016 4:55:21 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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More money foolishly wasted on a study to ignore known facts and legitimize fiction.

We already know the root cause of the majority of the non-accidental deaths and injuries by firearms.

And it isn't the Amish.....


8 posted on 05/25/2016 5:01:35 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals Were Rebublicans 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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the epidemic of gun violence that is ravaging our families and communities.

Hyperbolic fear-monger much?

It should be noted that this "epidemic" has occurred in cities with the strictest gun control laws in the country, under left-wing administrators, perpetrated in the main by members of certain ethnic groups. But I'll bet that "evidence" never makes it on the final report.

So why don't we stop pretending that this proposal is an attempt to find a real solution to violent crime and just admit that it's a side-door plot to further gut the Second Amendment and impose even more restrictions on our God-given right to self defense?

9 posted on 05/25/2016 5:06:56 AM PDT by IronJack
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Re-enact the blue laws, force people to do something other than go go go, do do do on a Sunday ...

They might re-discover pleasure with the Lord and rear proper thinking families

Gun violence as well as ALL other violence will drastically reduce to almost nothing

A representative Republic works properly only with a religiously moral citizenry

10 posted on 05/25/2016 5:10:18 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true)
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What to study? We already know:

Bad people shoot bad people.
Bad people shoot good people.
Good people aren't shooting enough bad people.
Good people are not shooting other good people at all.

So what do they hope to discover this time?

11 posted on 05/25/2016 5:19:24 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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“Evidence based” and “ravaged” are the buzzwords these hacks have been told to say.

Notice they’re popping up all over in discussing gun control.


12 posted on 05/25/2016 5:25:01 AM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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So what do they hope to discover this time?

New hypotheticals where the bad people are really good people, and the good people are really bad people....

13 posted on 05/25/2016 5:25:25 AM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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To: Biggirl

Violence doesn’t have anything to do with race or culture. Has to be guns.
Not.


14 posted on 05/25/2016 5:28:30 AM PDT by Little Ray (NOTHING THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO PAY FOR IS A RIGHT.)
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the epidemic of gun violence that is ravaging our families and communities.

Too bad their elected officials won't allow them to receive the "vaccine" that keeps my family and community safe from this epidemic: freedom!

15 posted on 05/25/2016 5:33:57 AM PDT by papertyger (-/\/\/\-)
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Meet George Jepson ...


16 posted on 05/25/2016 5:34:32 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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Sounds like someone has been sending out directives to lay the foundation for a new crack at disarmament. I can tell them how to stop the gun violence. Don’t let liberals have guns.


17 posted on 05/25/2016 5:41:27 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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> Are these people being paid off?

It certainly sounds like there's a rudder steering that ship doesn't it? Too much of a coincidence for that many states suddenly want a study to be conducted. This sounds like another coordinated attack run at the Constitution. They evil ones know that if they take the 2nd Amendment away the rest will fall too.

I'm guessing there is a promise of federal funding for being a good boy and following orders.

18 posted on 05/25/2016 5:46:16 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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Simple Excel spreadsheet, 3 columns: Amish, Mennonite, Other.

When Other reaches 1% of Amish + Mennonite you might have a problem...

19 posted on 05/25/2016 6:07:33 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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WoW! That was fast! LOL!


20 posted on 05/25/2016 6:25:30 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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