Bang!
With patriots trusting government “scientists” about as much as they trust Osama Bin Laden, this is a totally clueless article.
The “research” has been done and the results are clear!
When the citizens of any community have been allowed to arm themselves, after a long period of being restrained, the violent crime goes down, in large numbers.
In communities where citizens have been disarmed, the violent crime is highest in the nation.
There is nothing stopping the anti-US crowd that wants to infringe on our rights from funding their own studies.
Sounds like a bunch of people clamoring for tax payer’s money, while wanting to manufacture a bunch of bullshit statistics.
We all saw where that got us when “climate scientists” got our money......
I notice they aren’t trying to do “research” on whether the First Amendment is “harmful”, or if communities are less safe where freedom of speech or religion is tolerated. Absurd? Of course. And so is so-called “research” on the Second Amendment.
Time to stop using the word “scientist” when referring to sociologists, psychologists and the like. Whatever is going on is not “science”.
You haven't been stopped from anything - pay for it on your own dime. Methinks Mr. Rosenbery is more concerned that he can't get a fat govt. paycheck (in the for of research grants) for pursuing his political agenda. Boo-hoo
It is at best a collection of imperfect data by a bunch of sociology PhDs who then stare at the goat innards and declare certainty in what it all means, not just deductively, but what it means we must do to address what they have pronounced. In actuality, it is a bunch of Leftists using government grant money to dress up their political views with spreadsheets.
We already know what would have prevented the Tuscon shootings, i.e. effective handling of the mentally ill. But losing the mentally ill vote would destroy the Democratic Party.
Sorry, Times, but the studies HAVE been done. And done. And re-done. Ask John Lott.
But, ever true to leftist form, when the results don’t deliver the agenda you want, ignore them and feign ignorance.
Typical, really. They want gun ownership defined as a mental disease that must be eradicated.
Now go out and make the science to support it!
The book “More guns, less crime” is a well-documented and researched answer to this question, moron. Of course they know that, but just don’t like the answer.
...except that it has, many times. And it always shows an increase in firearms ownership means a decrease in crime. But that doesn't ever have any effect on the statists. They want unarmed serfs, facts be damned.
These supposed "scientists" would be the same kind who "studied" the effects of venereal disease on American Citizens in the south teo generations ago, and "studied" the effects of open-air atomic bomb tests on U.S. Soldiers a generation back. Now they want to play with human lives again.
Let them start with the N.Y. Times. Let's see how they react to having their armed guards removed from the paper's NY offices.
* The Wall Street Journal
* LATIN AMERICA NEWS
* JANUARY 26, 2011
Alleged Gun Ring Busted
Authorities Say Smugglers Planned to Ship 700 Weapons to Mexican Cartels
By TAMARA AUDI
PHOENIX—Federal officials said Tuesday they busted a network of gun buyers and smugglers planning to ship 700 guns to Mexican drug cartels embroiled in deadly turf wars.
Law-enforcement officials arrested 17 people named in a 53-count indictment unsealed Tuesday. Police were still searching for three other people named in the indictment.
“The drug cartels go shopping for their war weapons in Arizona,” said Dennis Burke, U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona. “One of Arizona’s top exports is weapons for drug cartels.”
Dennis Burke, U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, detailed the bust at a Phoenix news conference where some of the weapons were displayed.
The arrests come on the heels of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit Monday to Mexico City for talks with Mexican President Felipe Calderón that addressed the battle against drug violence in Mexico.
Excerpt