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Hero NYC Cop Killed By Our Mania Over Guns
NY Post ^ | November 29, 2005 | Dr. Robert Kurtz

Posted on 11/29/2005 9:28:50 AM PST by dead

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Heavily excerpted, but its mostly more of the same old same old.

That man who shot the cop yesterday was just emotional and a tad excitable. It was hardly even his fault at all. It was the gun's fault for amplifying his rage to deadly levels.

If all of us law-abiding citizens would allow the helpful lads of the government to disarm us all, the evil guns would leave us alone.

Thank God our forefathers had the foresight they had. There is a mechanism, good doctor, for getting the ineffective laws you seek enacted in a constitutional manner. Get two thirds of both houses of congress, three quarters of the fifty states, and the president to agree on a change to the Constitution. Until that time, leave us free men alone.

1 posted on 11/29/2005 9:28:52 AM PST by dead
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Amen.


2 posted on 11/29/2005 9:30:49 AM PST by brivette
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England's gun-prohibition has worked so well --- to disarm the law-abiding.
3 posted on 11/29/2005 9:31:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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Let me get this straight: the shooting occurred in the city and state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country and "Dr Demento" here thinks the problem is not enough gun control?

Sh'yeah...right...


4 posted on 11/29/2005 9:31:34 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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Dr. Kurtz said the time has come to get the guns off the city's streets...

And criminals stop using guns because there are laws against them...

5 posted on 11/29/2005 9:31:43 AM PST by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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...Consider what would have happened yesterday with stricter federal gun controls in effect....

Consider how many damned commies will die if they try to revoke the Second Amendmnet.


6 posted on 11/29/2005 9:34:10 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: dead

Want mine, come and try to get it.


7 posted on 11/29/2005 9:34:12 AM PST by RetiredArmy (I have no faith in any politician or political party any more. They all lie for their agendas.)
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To: dead

I think Patton said, "Don't mourn the death of these men. Thank God that men like these lived."


8 posted on 11/29/2005 9:34:16 AM PST by Sensei Ern (Now, IB4Z! http://trss.blogspot.com/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
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Dang it. Gotta register for the NY post to read a anti-gun article. I thought they were the good guys.


9 posted on 11/29/2005 9:34:53 AM PST by Dan Evans
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New York, as we all know, has very restrictive gun laws and a very active police force that works very hard to get guns off the streets.

Ah, New York, where even the CONSERVATIVE NY Post is anti-gun, as are nearly every Republican politician (including Rudy).

Hey Doc, in the course of writing this article did you ever consider that the Seattle area, where I can walk into any shop and, following a quick BATF background check, purchase a weapon (to say nothing of shall-issue concealed carry), has a lower murder rate than New York? Could it be that areas with high homicide rates tend to be those with dysfunctional social mores rather than those with easy access to firearms?

10 posted on 11/29/2005 9:36:02 AM PST by Clemenza (Ticking Away the Moments that Make up the Dog Day)
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while i truly respect this doctor and the work he does, he fails to see the difference between legal and illegal guns. he only sees the damage guns can do in the hands of criminals. i cannot blame him but i also cannot agree with him.


11 posted on 11/29/2005 9:36:24 AM PST by thefactor
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NY Republicans are anti-gun. Its in the water up there.


12 posted on 11/29/2005 9:36:36 AM PST by Clemenza (Ticking Away the Moments that Make up the Dog Day)
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The trend in crimes is down, including gun violence. But ya should never let the facts get in the way of a good story.


13 posted on 11/29/2005 9:36:40 AM PST by Paradox (Just because we are not perfect, does not mean we are not good.)
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I've had this debate before with a local ER doc. For highly educated people some are pretty clueless about the real world


14 posted on 11/29/2005 9:37:55 AM PST by Horatio Gates
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Doc, we are awash in guns where I'm at too. We also have one of the lowest homicide rates in the country.


15 posted on 11/29/2005 9:38:11 AM PST by Dan from Michigan ("What does a guy have to do to get fired around here?" - Darryl Rogers, former Lions Coach)
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If this man were angry at Officer Dillon Stewart, he might have punched him instead of shooting him.

Sure, doc...whatever you say.

After reading this, I think I'll send the NRA a little Christmas present.

16 posted on 11/29/2005 9:39:24 AM PST by AngryJawa (NRA)
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17 posted on 11/29/2005 9:40:20 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (Maybe in your house. Not in mine.)
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But when the whole country is deluged with guns, and when people can buy guns very easily in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia and bring them up here, they're much too easily available.

Yeah, we all know how strict gun control has ended gun violence in the island nations of Great Britain and Australia.

Oops, it hasn't.

Yet another liberal response to failure - demand we do more of what fails in the hope that doing enough of it might work, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

18 posted on 11/29/2005 9:41:24 AM PST by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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Another emotional appeal to destroy the only defense the population has against anarchy or tyranny.


19 posted on 11/29/2005 9:41:35 AM PST by Tax Government (Oppose the judicial insurrection. Contribute to FR.)
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ok.. I puked... can a get an alert next time :)


20 posted on 11/29/2005 9:41:55 AM PST by fhlh (Polls are for strippers and liberal spinsters.)
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