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?
Is it just me or is this guy bordering on the incoherent?
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.
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?
This a$$hat must believe the second amendment only applies in Texas and Florida.
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.
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
Mark Greene has been a horse’s ass his whole life. I don’t see that changing
..another Soros funded puppet
The difference is that guns are NOT allowed but child molesters are teaching the kids.
since libs are for stuff like card check, i think it’s in my best interest to know which of my neighbors vote for libtards. also how much they earn, and whether they pay their fair share or are just moochers.
it comes out of my pocket, it affects the laws i and my family have to live under, therefore using libtard logic, i want this info published.
Ban tanning beds, I think his brain is fried!
He worked with Ralph Nader from 1970–1980, eventually as director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch, and is also the former president of Air America Radio (2007–2009). - owned by his brother, the real estate magnate.
In 1977, Green married Deni Frand, later the director of the New York City office of liberal interest group, People for the American Way and also a senior associate at the Aol-Time Warner Foundation and the Citi Foundation
I hope this asshat lives between the home of a legal gun owner and the home of a child molester...
Let’s see who he worries about more...especially if he has children...
Freaking jack off...
Tattoo the "L" on his forehead...ridicule him...forget about him
Mark who? Magenta?
In the Los Angeles School district, Child molesters can be teachers and are protected by the Teachers Union.
If this guy wants all gun owners on a list for everyone to access, this will just encourage gangs to come and break int those homes when the owners are gone and steal the guns. It’s like putting up a christmas list for criminal. Maybe, just maybe, that’s what this guy wants to do, is to create more crime and more killings and death. Libs, creating crime where there is now for 200 years
In the Los Angeles School district, Child molesters can be teachers and are protected by the Teachers Union.
If this guy wants all gun owners on a list for everyone to access, this will just encourage gangs to come and break int those homes when the owners are gone and steal the guns. It’s like putting up a christmas list for criminal. Maybe, just maybe, that’s what this guy wants to do, is to create more crime and more killings and death. Libs, creating crime where there is now for 200 years
How about disclosure on a website of the home addresses of anyone who’s ever had one of America’s 50+ million abortions? If a woman is willing to kill her own child, how safe if yours in the neighborhood?
why would anyone put any credibility of what this dolt says???? He has been around forever and hasn’t uttered a single lucid thought in his sorry career
Kind of like the Jews, you know?