John Stossel: Myths about guns are truly deadly

New Hampshire Sunday News ^ | October 23, 2005 | John Stossel

[definitelynotaliberal]

Likewise. I don't much care what he says, but the fact that he talks bothers me a great deal.

[RedMonqey]

Bork is an overripe tomato.


He spent too much time in Washington and picked uo the Potomac
Flu. (Insider's diease)

[RedMonqey]

"I put that question to gun-control advocate Rev. Al Sharpton. His eyes opened wide, and he said, "We'd be living in a state of terror!""


The "We" Al was talking on part of was him and his criminal ilk.
Like the Toledo rioters...er...Protesters.

[Horatio Gates]

I think you may be correct.

[TigersEye]

"Don't tell me this bill will not make a difference," said President Clinton, who signed the Brady Bill into law.

Sorry. Even the federal government can't say it has made a difference. - John Stossel

Not true, Mr. Stossel. The Brady Bill made a HELL of a difference! I went to the last gun show in Albuquerque before the BB went into effect and the line was four abreast and a city block long. It moved fast though, we were in in less than twenty minutes and the line behind us was still a block long. We were over an hour late too.

More guns, more ammo and more reloading components left that building that day than probably the last ten year's gun shows put together. It was awesome!!! Fathers and sons with arms loaded, bikers, hunters, survivalists, sportsman of all kinds...men, women and children (yes, children. accompanied by parents. with money) from every walk of life. A scene repeated at gun shows all across the nation and a similar surge at gun shops too.

The BB continued to spur me for several years after its passage (as it did many others) to collect as many arms and as much related supplies and equipment as I could afford. More really.

Did Bill Clinton's Brady Bill make a difference? I'll say it did! I am certain that I wouldn't have half the guns or any of the reloading stuff I now own if it weren't for that. Guess I'll have to thank the old reprobate traitor-trash for something after all.

Thanks, Bubba!

[Utah Binger]

Where would you feel safer? Oklahoma or New Orleans?

Right where I'm sitting with my antique Remington Model 12 Pump 22, Octagon Barrel. Might not be macho, but it works just fine. Can pick off a skunk at 100 yards.

Any skunk!

[Utah Binger]

[hophead]

"I live in PA where there are a lot of hunters and gun owners. The last time there was a serious attempt at a gun grab was by Sen. Joe Clark in the 60's. Fortunately the people in their wisdom rode his sorry leftist ass out of town on a rail."

I have a CCW permit from Florida. Before vacationing in your state of PA. I looked up the reciprocity law in PA. According to the PA Attorney General site, Florida CCW permits are legal in PA. Also, according to Florida Attorney General, the permit is accepted in PA. To be sure and as an experiment, I called 5 police and Sheriff offices in and around the area I was going to visit. NOT ONE OFFICE told me my permit was accepted in PA. One State Police barracks even asked, "Why do you feel you need to carry a handgun in my county?" My response was, "For the same reason you carry one, to protect myself from those who may want to hurt me."
It seems the PA law enforcement people I spoke with were either grossly ignorant or were just trying to dissuade me from partaking in my civil rights. I am glad I did not run into any of those officers on my visit. Lord know what they would have done if I would have been pulled over by any of them. That may well have ruined my vacation and cost $$$ that was not in the budget.

[megatherium]

John Lott deserves much of the credit for the improved climate for gun ownership today. But Michael Bellesile deserves a great deal of credit too -- when his book Arming America: Origin of a National Gun Culture, claiming that guns were uncommon at the time of the American Revolution, turned out to be fraudulent.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

One inmate told me, "When you gonna rob somebody you don't know, it makes it harder because you don't know what to expect out of them."

Chuckle.

[TomSmedley]

Unfortunately the Hungarian civilian population had been disarmed years earlier, and their heroic efforts at throwing off the yoke of communism were brutally crushed.

My uncle served in the European theater, and was among those American GIs who rounded up civilian weapons, and lined them up in the street, so that the tanks could roll over them. (the day after he wept over a magnificent shotgun, the policies were changed, so that GIs could take confiscated guns home as souvenirs.) Our troops prepared the way for Stalin's thugs.

[appleharvey]

Sorry to hear about your troubles. I was just talking about the Northeast. Compared to border states like N.Y. and Maryland, I thought I was pretty lucky in this state. It could be wishful thinking I suppose.

[M-cubed]

No Second Amendment. No militia. No Draft.<<<< NOPE!!!...the militia has nothing..I repeat NOTHING to do with the Feds or the National Guard...Do your own research though..you'll be surprised and enlightened...

[RedMonqey]

Cool your jets, friend. We're on the SAME side. I think you misunderstood my post. Allow me to try and clear my position.


It deals with the legal ABILITY of the Federal or state government to forcibly draft able bodied males 18 to 44 yrs.
in service to that governmental body.
My point is the power to "enlist" a person and put his person in danger. Not about the militia itself which we both know predates the Constitution and the /U.S. government There can no be a draft if there is no militia (as understood by the Founders, every able bodied male, 18 to 44, with their own privately owned weapons) Not the National Guard (creature of Congress in late 1890'sIIRC) Thus the entire meaning of the Second Amendment.

[William Tell]

Torie said: "John Lott's research changed the gun debate dynamics profoundly. I observed it with my own eyes, as one sitting on the fence on this issue, and not caring much about it, frankly. "

Excellent.

Perhaps you might like to check the web site in my tag line and volunteer to help put the right to keep and bear arms on the California Constitution.

Somehow the tyrannical courts in California have decided that your inalienable right under the California Constitution to defend your life and your liberty doesn't include the right to do it with a gun.