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What Gun Control Advocates Fail to Grasp After Mass Shootings
Townhall ^ | June 3, 2019 | John R. Lott, Jr.

Posted on 06/04/2019 1:29:55 PM PDT by rogerantone1

The chilling fact is that mass public killers are attracted to targets where people can’t defend themselves. The Virginia Beach attack is all too familiar. Ninety-eight percent of US mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where people weren’t allowed to defend themselves.

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1 posted on 06/04/2019 1:29:55 PM PDT by rogerantone1
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“Ninety-eight percent of US mass public shootings since 1950 have occurred in places where people weren’t allowed to defend themselves.

Money quote.


2 posted on 06/04/2019 1:32:00 PM PDT by traderrob6
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Libs want to turn the whole country into a gun free zone. Citizens will be defenseless during a shooting except for the Scot Peterson types who will wait until he runs out of bullets.


3 posted on 06/04/2019 1:33:18 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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They might want to, but they ain’t gonna.

It will be a Lib Free Zone first.


4 posted on 06/04/2019 1:39:01 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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You don’t see these mass shootings in police stations. If tried it would be brief.


5 posted on 06/04/2019 1:42:33 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: rogerantone1
They don't fail to grasp it, they refuse to grasp it.

6 posted on 06/04/2019 1:44:58 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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7 posted on 06/04/2019 1:46:51 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the univ"erse to bring you down to earth.)
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To: rogerantone1

When it comes to more “reasoned” gun control, I think one of the most powerful arguments against it, is this.

The mass shooters break many laws to kill people. What good is creating even more laws they’ll ignore?

All gun control does is keep decent law abiding people from defending themselves.

No more gun control laws. It’s time to start allowing people more gun rights. Let them defend themselves and each other openly.


8 posted on 06/04/2019 1:56:13 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Can I get a shout out for the person(s) who donated $2,000.00 from France? Thanks so much! Wow!)
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What Advocates fail to grasp or grasp all too well is immaterial. What they want is a nation safer for the advent of Tyranny.


9 posted on 06/04/2019 2:02:37 PM PDT by arthurus (v.,v/]]---><---{{D)
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To: DoughtyOne

John R. Lott is a national hero.

He should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom or whatever they currently give to golfers.

I have all of his books. The guy is a superstar.


10 posted on 06/04/2019 2:05:50 PM PDT by golux
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the left loves guns, they adore them.

in the hands of fellow socialists and their armed enforcers.

they only hate free people, regular citizens, having them. screws up their plans.


11 posted on 06/04/2019 2:09:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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The Democrats don't fail to grasp it. They understand it very well. They are not in the least interested in keeping the citizenry safe.

What they're interested in is making sure the country is safe for the sort of tyranny they want to establish. They want to make sure that the citizens have no recourse when their home grown KGB/Gestapo/STASI come pounding on our doors. They look at the former Soviet Union, Pol Pot's Cambodia, North Korea, etc. and see something entirely different that what we see. We look in horror at the atrocities inflicted by the government on their own people. Democrats see these countries as utopias (for the one in power) where the elite can coerce unquestioned obedience to their slightest whim.

For the ones in charge, socialists' "workers paradises" really are paradises where the elite get special treatment, have access to all sorts of goods and services denied the proletariat. That is what they want for the USA, and an armed citizenry is their biggest obstacle to their evil and perverse dream.

12 posted on 06/04/2019 2:19:31 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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They don’t fail to grasp...THEY DON’T CARE. They have an agenda and that is to disarm citizens.


13 posted on 06/04/2019 2:20:16 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: golux

I didn’t mean to cast dispersions on his comments.

He is right, 98% take place in paces where people are prevented from defending themselves.

There are a number of very powerful statements to be made, that just put the anti-gunners out of the debate.


14 posted on 06/04/2019 2:22:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Can I get a shout out for the person(s) who donated $2,000.00 from France? Thanks so much! Wow!)
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I think 98% of the shootings are engineered


15 posted on 06/04/2019 2:26:47 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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Turning America into a “gun free zone” is part of the “Utopia” and the lynch pin to total leftist power.


16 posted on 06/04/2019 2:46:10 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: rogerantone1

Dudes. Get your heads out of the sand.

The left doesn’t care about logical arguments. They only care about their feelings.

Their feelings are such that they want all of us DEAD.

That is why they want gun control. So that they can implement genocide against us.


17 posted on 06/04/2019 4:53:37 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: golux
John R. Lott is a national hero.

Agree.

Heard him on two shows recently.

His question to ask any liberal after they present their emotional, hysterical gun control idea: "Could your plan have stopped the shooter at -----?"

Liberal: Er, uh, well.

Lott:No.

18 posted on 06/04/2019 5:14:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: shanover
Turning America into a “gun free zone” is part of the “Utopia” and the lynch pin to total leftist power.

NRA radio ad has a woman from Venezuela. "They told us give up all your guns. It will be safer and better for you." The thugs and gang members all kept their guns and they run Venezuela now. Everyone is terrorized."

19 posted on 06/04/2019 5:17:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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