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MSNBC Guest Draws Parallel Between Gun Owners and Child Molesters
Free Beacon ^ | 1/3/13 | Washington Free Beacon Staff

Posted on 01/03/2013 5:47:26 PM PST by Nachum

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1 posted on 01/03/2013 5:47:33 PM PST by Nachum
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INCONVENIENT FACT: According to no less an authority than the peer-reviewed Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, countries with stringent gun control laws have higher murder and suicide rates than those without.

DOCUMENTATION: “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser, Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, pages 649-694. (To download a PDF copy of the journal article, simply Google the title. It is available on the web free of charge.)

QUOTE FROM ARTICLE: “If you are surprised by our findings, so are we. We did not begin this research with any intent to “exonerate” handguns, but there it is — a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources.”

INDIRECTION: The trick hoplophobes always use is to say that America has higher gun-murder rates than other countries, but many of those “murders” are criminals killed in the act of committing violent crimes. Compare absolute murder rates, and the result is “more guns, less murder.” (Source: GunFacts.info);

SECOND INCONVENIENT FACT: According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by US citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home-invasion and carjacking, 99% of the time without a shot being fired. (Source: GunFacts.info)

THIRD INCONVENIENT FACT: “Assault weapons” (AKA semiautomatic rifles) are used in less than 1% of gun crimes. (Source: GunFacts.info)

QUESTION: If gun-free zones make people safe, then why don’t we declare the immediate vicinity of the President and Vice-President to be gun-free zones and send the Secret Service home? Or are gun-free zones good enough for our kids, but not good enough for our overlords?

METAPHOR: America has more private gun ownership than most other countries, so naturally there are more gun murders. America also has more hospitals than most other countries, so naturally we have more people dying in hospitals. Does that mean we should outlaw hospitals?


2 posted on 01/03/2013 5:51:44 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("More law, less justice." --Cicero)
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To: Nachum

Is it just me or is this guy bordering on the incoherent?


3 posted on 01/03/2013 5:51:44 PM PST by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: ArmyTeach
Is it just me or is this guy bordering on the incoherent?

He's a lawyer. He's trained to be incoherent.

4 posted on 01/03/2013 5:55:30 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Nachum

I think freepers should take an hour and watch Glenn Beck’s show on gun violence. The person he interviewed showed what the argument (they call it “conversation” now) is really about. Probably one of the best shows and interviews he has had in a long time.


5 posted on 01/03/2013 5:56:14 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: ArmyTeach

...MSNBC that is ...


6 posted on 01/03/2013 5:57:04 PM PST by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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To: Nachum

Mark Green is the perennial failed politician that even the libtards don’t like. I thought he had died or maybe moved under a bridge somewhere. My God. He’s still around?


7 posted on 01/03/2013 5:57:08 PM PST by laweeks
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Ref: Jan 3rd show on the Blaze.


8 posted on 01/03/2013 5:57:22 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Save the nation, have your family's progressives spayed or neutered.)
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To: ArmyTeach
Its incoherent because the objective is to insult, not make sense.

All progressives have a primative need to end-run their own intellects and publicly emote.

9 posted on 01/03/2013 5:58:05 PM PST by skeeter
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There may be people who think the more concealed weapons, the better, fine – live in Texas and Florida.

This a$$hat must believe the second amendment only applies in Texas and Florida.

10 posted on 01/03/2013 6:00:18 PM PST by jazusamo ("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
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Substitute the words “gun owners”, for “jews”, and we are back in 1939. And there’s a story like this every day. I think i might need an assault rifle for the same reasons Anne Frank did. She didn’t have one, i do.


11 posted on 01/03/2013 6:02:06 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: laweeks

The brain dead Mark Green is back! The farthest he got in city government was “consumer advocate”. His claim to fame, if I remember correctly, was his war against cold cereal.


12 posted on 01/03/2013 6:03:18 PM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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The left seems to always be obsessed with sex, rape, and child molestation..the left truly are mentally ill..the same ones who trash the 2nd Amendment have NO problem having their buildings guarded with armed guards..Hey MSNBC, since you guys hate guns so much, get rid of those armed guards of yours


13 posted on 01/03/2013 6:03:40 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: miss marmelstein

Wasn’t this moron on the old Crossfire where Buchanan kicked his ass almost nightly?


14 posted on 01/03/2013 6:06:16 PM PST by laweeks
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We’re a pretty gun heavy state here in Michigan and the one thing they never talk about is the fact that the long guns aren’t registered anywhere.


15 posted on 01/03/2013 6:06:30 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: ArmyTeach

Anyone would be who had his head stuck up Ralph Nader’s backside for 4 decades


16 posted on 01/03/2013 6:07:30 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Elections do have consequences, young people of America)
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To: Nachum

Mark Greene has been a horse’s ass his whole life. I don’t see that changing


17 posted on 01/03/2013 6:11:11 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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..another Soros funded puppet


18 posted on 01/03/2013 6:12:32 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: laweeks
Wasn’t this moron on the old Crossfire where Buchanan kicked his ass almost nightly?

I was wondering if it was the same jughead also. I remember he did run for something. He's very short on intelligence.

19 posted on 01/03/2013 6:15:58 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Where can I pick up a 2013 Mayan calendar?)
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To: Nachum

The difference is that guns are NOT allowed but child molesters are teaching the kids.


20 posted on 01/03/2013 6:18:43 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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