Posted on 08/05/2011 4:51:50 AM PDT by marktwain
The Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation is hosting a forum next Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. and a highlight of the event which is held in cooperation with Students for Concealed Carry on Campus will be a debate between Colin Goddard with the Brady Campaign and economist John Lott, author of More Guns = Less Crime.
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb will be there, along with attorney Alan Gura, who successfully argued both of this centurys landmark Second Amendment cases before the Supreme Court, District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, the latter being a SAF case. Joining them will be SCCC President Dan Crocker.
The debate between Lott and Goddard probably could not come at a worse time for the Brady Bunch, primarily because of last weekends two-part series in the Detroit Free Press discussed by this column that looked at the state of concealed carry in Michigan ten years after that states legislature reformed and improved the states concealed carry statute. Those stories included some devastating information for the gun prohibition lobby, including indications that so-called research by gun banners, primarily the Violence Policy Center, is rather questionable.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
Pretty much. Liberals have no rational basis on which to base an argument. That doesn’t mean they don’t like guns. Thats a myth. Liberals have no problems with their guns just yours. They have no problem using them as long as it promotes their agenda.
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