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'No Credible Evidence' That Carrying Concealed Weapons Laws Decrease Crime
Million Mom March (united with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) ^ | 12/23/2004 | Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort

Posted on 12/28/2004 3:23:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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121 posted on 12/29/2004 5:30:13 AM PST by Ladysmith (Wisconsin Hunter Shootings: If you want on/off the WI Hunters ping list, please let me know.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
'No Credible Evidence' That Carrying Concealed Weapons Laws Decrease Crime

There's no evidence whatsoever that such laws INCREASE CRIME either.....

122 posted on 12/29/2004 5:33:15 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Socks again! Knock it off with the damn socks already.........)
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To: ConservativeDude

Bottom line: policy arguments come and go. The fact is that a law abiding citizen has an inalienable right to self defense, including the right to carry. That should be enough for most people.

Exactly.

Except that it doesn't matter what is enough for most people. If my inalienable right to self defense includes using a gun to save my life then no person or group of people have the right -- nor should they have the power -- to force me to be defenseless. 911 is slow crime follow-up. Martial arts don't stop a criminal's speeding bullet.

And if I were a criminal it would be well within my mental make up to steal a gun to commit other crimes.

If a politician or bureaucrat doesn't trust me with a gun I cannot trust them to wield the power of government. They and their 911 can't defend me in the few moments that most violent crimes occur.

If they're going to force me to forego my inalienable right to self defense then should I be a victim of a violent crime they will be held accountable for failing to be there to defend me.

If they proclaim that they criminal is to fault because he didn't abide the law I will agree. Yet that is besides the point that the politician and bureaucrat failed to defend me during the crime. Though they did insure that I'd be defenseless during the crime.

Bottom line: politicians and bureaucrats know full well that they cannot be there to defend a victim during a violent crime. When they vote for gun control laws they know full well that they will be leaving victims defenseless.

They are parasites more destructive than the criminals they proclaim to be protecting their constituents from.


123 posted on 12/29/2004 5:58:42 AM PST by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

lol... yeah well it'll sure surprise a lot of muggers


124 posted on 12/29/2004 5:59:59 AM PST by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: Cobra64

Sooo... I think you are saying that if I drive into the city of Charlotte, NC, and some coke-head wants my Beemer, and breaks the windo, that I cannot put a few 9mm rounds through his head?

Just make sure your life IS in danger and the wounds aren't in the back of the head lol


125 posted on 12/29/2004 8:24:26 AM PST by Figment (Ich bin ein Jesuslander)
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To: Melas

Read my tagline and reflect on the Law of Unintended Consequences.


126 posted on 12/29/2004 9:20:30 AM PST by Old Professer (When the fear of dying no longer obtains no act is unimaginable.)
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To: Figment

Actually, he committed a crime by doing an anchor shot on one of his attackers.


127 posted on 12/29/2004 2:46:18 PM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Coleus

"No credible evidence" just means they choose not to believe what evidence their is.


128 posted on 12/29/2004 2:58:02 PM PST by ThanhPhero ( Nguoi hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: mvpel

Actually, he committed a crime by doing an anchor shot on one of his attackers.

He committed a crime in New York City just by having the gun. If I'd been on that jury he would have at least gotten a hung jury


129 posted on 12/29/2004 8:41:14 PM PST by Figment (Ich bin ein Jesuslander)
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