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John Lott: Gun laws disarm the vulnerable, not killers
The Australian ^
| April 18 2007
| John Lott
Posted on 04/18/2007 2:24:20 PM PDT by knighthawk
FEW tragedies make their victims feel more helpless than multiple-victim shootings. Imagine the terror: unable to escape, simply waiting for the killer.
With 32 murdered, the Virginia Tech attack this week left more people dead than the two previous most deadly shootings: the 1991 Luby's Cafeteria massacre in Texas, which left 23 people dead, and the shooting at a California McDonald's in 1984 in which 21 people were killed.
Of course, these horrors are hardly unique to the US, and Australians need no reminding. In 1996 Martin Bryant killed 35 people at Port Arthur in Tasmania. In the last half-dozen years, European countries including France, Germany and Switzerland have experienced multiple-victim shootings. The worst in Germany resulted in 17 deaths; in Switzerland one attack claimed the lives of 14 regional legislators.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gunlaws; johnlott
To: MizSterious; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...
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posted on
04/18/2007 2:24:42 PM PDT
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: knighthawk
I was hoping Lott would respond to the current hysteria...
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posted on
04/18/2007 2:26:22 PM PDT
by
Molly Pitcher
(We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
To: knighthawk
This is a must read, cut and paste the article and send copies to all state & federal legislators!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
04/18/2007 2:29:21 PM PDT
by
Stayfree
(**********Get to know more about Fred at www.FredDThompsonforPresident.com)
To: knighthawk
"Bill Landes of the University of Chicago law school and I examined multiple-victim public shootings in the US from 1977 to 1999 and found that when states passed right-to-carry laws, the rate of multiple-victim public shootings fell by 60 per cent. Deaths and injuries from multiple-victim public shootings fell even further, on average by 78 per cent, as the remaining incidents tended to involve fewer victims per attack."
Wow! I guess you call that "the smoking gun."
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posted on
04/18/2007 2:31:44 PM PDT
by
RKV
( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
To: Stayfree
And friends who let their emotions get in front of their thought process.
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posted on
04/18/2007 2:39:56 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: knighthawk
Too bad John Howard hasn’t figured this out.
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posted on
04/18/2007 3:03:30 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: knighthawk
I would have rather seen a student with a gun stop this man when he committed the first murder then see the evil that was not stopped because of this killer. I think if they do not want armed guards or security cameras then let each student have the option to pack and carry. I would rather know my kids are safe in college then run to the tv to see which college victims are next. Guns do not kill people , people kill people!
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posted on
04/18/2007 3:08:46 PM PDT
by
betsyross1776
(BIG HOME DO NOT BUY YOU HAPPINESS)
To: knighthawk
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posted on
04/18/2007 3:37:49 PM PDT
by
El Laton Caliente
(NRA Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
To: knighthawk
I am surprised and pleased to see such a fine article appear in an Australian newspaper.
To: knighthawk
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posted on
04/18/2007 5:51:59 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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