Debate on concealed weapons revealing

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 23 Mar 02 | Mike Littwin

[real saxophonist]

It looks like the concealed-weapons guys are serious

[motzman]

Wow, this guy's an idiot, and dangerous to boot. Perhaps columnists should be licensed, as spreading misinformation via newsletter is at least as dangerous to society at large as citizens owning weapons...

[ikka]

There are competing studies. And there's also, say, the well-armed citizenry of Afghanistan.

Or even the well-armed citizenry of Switzerland. But he won't mention that.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"In 1997, 630 children under the age of 15 died from gunshot wounds in America." (Rocky Mountain News)

Meaning - as undisputable math - that far fewer than one in three U.S. counties had even one under-driving-age kid die from gunfire that year!

Bring the math up in the gun debate. Bring up the fact that "child gun death" is undisputably statistically an aberration - not a norm - in America! And drive the lesson home by asking ditzbrain sucker mom arguing otherwise when was the last time any kid on her street was shot.

Scandals of antigun politicians and activists - coast to coast

[Copernicus]

Thanks for posting this.

Best regards,

[uncbob]

by living most of my life in cities where people in great numbers use guns to kill other people in great numbers.

Vast majority are criminals killing criminals and of a CERTAIN RACIAL makeup. Course you can't say this

[Eugene Tackleberry]

Borodkin admitted that she couldn't be sure if her bill would have made the difference in this case. "But," she said, "it's a statement."

What's wrong with you Freepers? It's a statement. Don't you know that that is sufficient justification for any law?

[William Tell]

From the article: "Both sides have numbers. The NRA will point out, for example, that more kids die from poison or falls or choking than from guns. But I still don't get the point."

He doesn't get the point that he is focussed on my right to keep and bear arms instead of licensing ladders, household chemicals, and water buckets. There should be licensing, background checks, and lengthy waiting periods mandated for all who would write such drivel.

[Standing Wolf]

Leftists are to American civil rights
as the A.I.D.S. virus is to health!

[Dan Cooper]

It's a simple proposition really. You either believe, as I do, that fewer guns make us safer or, as Charlton Heston does, that more guns make us safer.

Actually, it's whether you believe it is your right to protect yourself using the best tools available regardless of what someone else thinks will benefit society.

[Puppage]

It won't make the streets any safer, either. But you already knew that. Perhaps, but it will make ME safer, and endanger the life a scumbag mugger.

[Interesting Times]

You called?

[motzman]

BWAHAHAHAHA!

[Green Knight]

"In 1997, 630 children under the age of 15 died from gunshot wounds in America." (Rocky Mountain News)"

And how many of those "children" were in gangs? Love how they use these BS numbers without giving any details. If that's the total number of gunshot related deaths in America then you better believe that a MINISCULE minority of that number are like the example this moron sites in his article (small child accidentally shooting himself). Yet they hold out that example as if all those 630 of those deaths were children accidentally shooting themselves.

So no 15 year olds gangbangers were shot to death that year? No kids were murdered that year with guns? Riigghhtt.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Borodkin admitted that she couldn't be sure if her bill would have made the difference in this case.

"But," she said, "it's a statement."

Oh, it's a statement of your superior moral concern, Rep. Borodkin? How sweet!

But maybe you could do that with greeting card from Hallmark, and let society as a whole protect itself according to its judgement of the various risks. Some of us might want criminals to fear the possibility that we might be armed . . .

[antaresequity]

I want to see a study or statistics that looks at gun deaths both adult and child, on a county by county basis. Then I want to see how those counties voted or what their political makeup is.

I want to see the study that supports my preconceived opinion. That you are far far more likely to die by gunshot in a democratic or liberal county than a conservative county. I believe that 80 to 90% of gun violence occurs in liberal strongholds. The study should rule out all accidental hunting deaths.

[BulletBrasDotNet]

Because a little boy from Arvada, 3 years old, is in the hospital in critical condition...And there's a little girl in Aurora, CO who died from drinking Drano. And 3,000 dead folks from drowning in swimming pools, and 40,000 dead motorists on the nation's highways. We should never walk outside either because people who are struck by lightning. The Afghans have it right, live in a friggin cave... but with no firearms.

Nitwitt is a dope!