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Massacres, Gun Control Studies and Social Change
Gates of Vienna ^ | 2/16/13 | Enza Ferreri

Posted on 02/16/2013 7:44:16 PM PST by Pleistarchos

I have closely followed the gun control debate in the US from the outside and, as a European, I am trying to make sense of it because I know that at stake is not just the gun legislation but also the American Constitution, with what it represents as the most historically important declaration of human rights and liberties to be safeguarded against the power of the state; the thorny issues of broken families and of how to treat the mentally ill; and even the always controversial question of race and gang violence.

I have never seen a gun in my life except on TV and in movies. I grew up in a very gun-averse environment in Northern Italy. Almost everyone, including people on the political centre-right like my family, believed that ordinary citizens should not have guns and that America needed to have tighter gun control laws.

This is more or less what I thought, too, until I began realizing how anti-freedom and despotic our Western governments actually are, something I had not realized before. That, for a start, made me take a better look at the meaning of the Second Amendment.....

(Excerpt) Read more at gatesofvienna.net ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; firearms; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment

1 posted on 02/16/2013 7:44:22 PM PST by Pleistarchos
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To: Pleistarchos

Nice find and thanks for posting.


2 posted on 02/16/2013 8:07:36 PM PST by Boomer One
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To: Pleistarchos
Keep on prospecting! This summary is long and detailed enough to be quite comprehensive, but short enough to be read in one sitting. And it it not loaded with terms that kindle emotions unnecessarily. "Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts,"

I hope this will be read by legislators who will effect real changes rather than wasting time pandering for votes to the low-information class's irrational demands for more restrictions, which will not.

Thanks for identifying the copy.

3 posted on 02/16/2013 8:58:07 PM PST by imardmd1 (An armed society is a polite society -- but dangerous for the fool --)
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To: Pleistarchos
Keep on prospecting! This summary is long and detailed enough to be quite comprehensive, but short enough to be read in one sitting. And it it not loaded with terms that kindle emotions unnecessarily. "Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts,"

I hope this will be read by legislators who will effect real changes rather than wasting time pandering for votes to the low-information class's irrational demands for more restrictions, which will not.

Thanks for identifying the copy.

4 posted on 02/16/2013 8:58:07 PM PST by imardmd1 (An armed society is a polite society -- but dangerous for the fool --)
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To: Pleistarchos

Thank you, I will book mark it and send it to like minded people.


5 posted on 02/16/2013 9:00:19 PM PST by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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To: Pleistarchos

Excellent find. I’m sending this around!


6 posted on 02/16/2013 11:56:38 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Pleistarchos; Joe Brower
BTTT

You might want to give your own thread a BTTT later in the day to allow others the opportunity to read this finely written article.

7 posted on 02/17/2013 4:11:44 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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In our urban areas — and gun violence happens much more in urban areas than anywhere else — young black men, often in broken families, are joining gangs and committing acts of violence against each other.

This will never be addressed in the "Gun Violence" debate.

Never.

It is the heart of the issue, and therefore it cannot be broached.

8 posted on 02/17/2013 4:15:56 AM PST by SkyPilot
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But despite the wide ownership and availability of guns,

Why must a wrier always use the word "despite" when the tenor of the piece is the opposite?

9 posted on 02/17/2013 5:24:24 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: Pleistarchos

Thanks for posting this one. A very interesting read, and from an outsider.


10 posted on 02/17/2013 7:30:55 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Pleistarchos

Good blog. Thanks for posting.


11 posted on 02/17/2013 2:23:58 PM PST by XHogPilot
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