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The bias fairly drips from this article. Not on case of defensive use of firearms cited. Only the discredited totals from the Nation Crime Victimization Survey (the major outlier in defensive gun use surveys), and the title all show a bias that amounts to advocacy. To the author's credit, they did include soms facts contrary to their worldview, but leaving out the fact that while the number of concealed carry permits has increased over 10X in the last 20 years, while the homicide rate has fallen by half, is inexcusable.

I could not find any way to comment on the article. This is often indicative of a source that cannot bear scrutiny. Perhaps I missed it. Please let us know if you find a way to comment.

1 posted on 02/03/2014 3:17:41 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Dangerous for Whom?


2 posted on 02/03/2014 3:23:54 PM PST by YHAOS
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It has been overwhelmingly proven that an armed society is a polite society.
3 posted on 02/03/2014 3:25:26 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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I have owned and legally carried numerous weapons for almost 40 years. Many of my friends have done also. None of us have shot one another nor anyone else. well at least not outside of combat.
Violent people will kill others even of every gun suddenly disappeared from the earth.


4 posted on 02/03/2014 3:31:02 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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This happened in 2010? This is the best case liberals have for propping up their insane beliefs? Yes, four years ago 2 men who legally could ‘carry’ in Florida acted stupidly.

Do you have any idea how many deaths by criminals have taken place in Florida in the last four years? Or just deaths by gangs...

If these two idiots are the best they’ve got it’s reason to support honest citizens owning guns..


5 posted on 02/03/2014 3:31:22 PM PST by GOPJ (The Nation's divided between those who are to be fooled and those who do the fooling.Greenfield)
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Do the measure the number of career criminals and walking time bombs who are not around to hurt others in society because they were shot by other criminals or law abiding people?


6 posted on 02/03/2014 3:32:22 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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Guns have nothing to do with it.
Morality has degraded to an incredible degree.

When society purged any value for life, we become susceptible to this horrible outcome.

Teenage gangstas in the hood think no more about shooting a human than they do stomping on a bug.


7 posted on 02/03/2014 3:36:41 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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An armed America is only a dangerous America for her Enemies and those that would do her harm.


9 posted on 02/03/2014 3:41:41 PM PST by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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How do the gun grabbers reconcile data like this:

DOJ Report: Firearm-Related Murders Down 39% Since 1993
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3118750/posts

A DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) “special report” shows that “firearm-related” homicides fell by 39 percent between 1993 and 2011.

11 posted on 02/03/2014 3:46:06 PM PST by Voice of Reason88 ( Freedom is never lost all at once - Edmund Burke)
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One man went nuts, the other man died defending himself.
Life is unfair.


12 posted on 02/03/2014 3:46:43 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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DOJ Report: Firearm-Related Murders Down 39% Since 1993

And this during the period when people were buying guns at an unprecedented rate.

More guns = less violent crime

14 posted on 02/03/2014 3:56:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The only way women can "have it all" is if men aren't allowed to have anything.)
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No.


22 posted on 02/03/2014 4:27:45 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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Robert A. Heinlein, deceased science fiction author extraordinaire, and medically discharged from the U.S. Navy, during WW2 wrote that line about an armed society is a polite society.

The quick polite and accurate answer is: ‘No.’


26 posted on 02/03/2014 6:20:15 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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Judging by actual crime statistics, and not anecdotes, the answer is no, an armed America is not a more dangerous America. In fact, and by fact I mean not anecdote, it is far safer than it otherwise would be.

Next question?


29 posted on 02/03/2014 11:26:24 PM PST by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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