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Lead in Sunday's Boston Globe: "Crime may be dropping in US, but gun possession is rising"

Posted on 11/01/2004 6:19:02 AM PST by Uncledave

Too funny. The word "but" says all you need to know about where they stand.

It's the headline on page A21 of "The Nation" section.


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To: Uncledave

While on the face it appears to be a case of the writer missing an obvious cause and effect, I think this may be a poorly worded headline. They possibly meant illegal possession of guns. I can't imagine even a liberal rag missing such a glaring cause and effect relationship.


41 posted on 11/01/2004 6:50:23 AM PST by ArmedNReady (George Bush has wood for the democrats.)
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To: Uncledave
Lead in Sunday's Boston Globe: "We have discovered the obvious..... criminals hate being shot."
42 posted on 11/01/2004 6:51:27 AM PST by fightu4it (conquest by immigration and subversion spells the end of US.)
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To: Uncledave

Talk about overlooking the obvious.


43 posted on 11/01/2004 6:52:21 AM PST by IamConservative (People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.)
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To: o_zarkman44

Since "The Constitution protects the minority against the majority," we should look forward to additional constitutional rights if Kerry-Edwards is elected.


44 posted on 11/01/2004 6:53:22 AM PST by The Great Yazoo (JFK: He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his nowhereland, Making all his nowhere plans, For nobody)
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To: The Great Yazoo

Trying out my new tagline.


45 posted on 11/01/2004 6:56:15 AM PST by The Great Yazoo (Why do penumbras not emanate from the Tenth Amendment as promiscuously as they do from the First?)
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To: Uncledave
More Guns, Less Crime - as John R. Lott Jr. would say.
46 posted on 11/01/2004 6:58:27 AM PST by A. Patriot
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To: Uncledave
This headline is akin to the one a few years ago that completely befuddled the liberals leftists.

Crime Rates Fall As Prison Population Rises
Is There A Connection?

(paraphrasing)

47 posted on 11/01/2004 6:59:39 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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To: Uncledave

Cognitive dissonance.

Some people will never get it.


48 posted on 11/01/2004 7:00:12 AM PST by .38sw
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To: Uncledave
Here's a little nugget the gun grabbers will never allow their sheep to know and understand.

The national crime rate, under the Bush administration, has never ever, ever, ever been lower.

Bush is to be congratulated and applauded for setting the bar for future administrations to follow on lowering the crime rate.

49 posted on 11/01/2004 7:03:26 AM PST by ChadGore (Vote Bush. He's Earned It.)
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To: Renderofveils
Notice it's also "possession" and not "ownership."

Good catch. This headline is becoming less funny and more infuriating to me the more I think about it.

50 posted on 11/01/2004 7:03:40 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: Uncledave
Please reproduce the link to the story. I looked here and couldn't find it.
51 posted on 11/01/2004 7:08:15 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: Uncledave
Please reproduce the link to the story. I looked here and couldn't find it.
52 posted on 11/01/2004 7:08:15 AM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: Austin Willard Wright

Sorry, I looked for the link - couldn't find it either.

I have the paper sitting here on my lap, though ;)


53 posted on 11/01/2004 7:10:02 AM PST by Uncledave
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To: ArmedNReady
"I can't imagine even a liberal rag missing such a glaring cause and effect relationship."

"Imagine" it? It happens so often I long ago came to expect it.

54 posted on 11/01/2004 7:14:04 AM PST by LouisWu (Great... another smarmy, self-referential tagline.)
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To: Uncledave

Does anyone remember this thigh-slapper from last year?

Crime statistics drop, but prison inmate population is rising.


55 posted on 11/01/2004 7:16:36 AM PST by wildbill
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To: sierrahome
Conjunction junction what's your function

LOL...that took a lot of unction on your part to write

56 posted on 11/01/2004 7:19:03 AM PST by mlocher (america is a sovereign state)
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To: mlocher

How can these morons still be in control of the Democratic Party?


57 posted on 11/01/2004 7:26:34 AM PST by JFK_Lib
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To: Uncledave

"Crime may be dropping in US, but gun possession is rising"


ROFLMAO!
Will someone please put the "Duh" in back into the dummies!

My tag line says it all.


58 posted on 11/01/2004 7:28:29 AM PST by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: Uncledave

I suspect that the sun rose this morning, but I couldn't be sure until there was enough light to see whether it was true. It could have been hiding in the dark. I like jello.

I know all of this because I am a Democrat.

I wait to be told what to think each morning.

I trust my instincts, once they are carefully explained to me.

I live a blissful life, unencumbered on the road by concerns about that steamroller approaching from behind. Because I learned when I was young that if I hold my hands in front of my eyes like this- that no one can see me.

A man came to my door this morning and told me that I should vote. He explained what that was, and how I should do it. He said that it wouldn't hurt, and that there was a man I should vote for, whom I've never met, but who feels my pain, but certainly -and this is seared in my memory from a few minutes ago- certainly wasn't the one who caused my pain in the early-to-late nineties.

I don't know what any of that meant but he gave me a candy bar and I am happy. So I made the mark he asked on the absentee ballot, and also the one he had that had my mom's name on it. I miss her ever since she passed away.

I need to go to work now. The newspaper boss gets mad if we're late.

I like jello.

Do you have a dog, too?



59 posted on 11/01/2004 7:31:14 AM PST by pickrell (Old dog, new trick...sort of)
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