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Showing Original Post only (View all)Really great piece on the Glock handgun, and gun control on NPR! [View all]
Nice audio bit on NPR, very good interview, they stuck to the facts, and dispelled some of the myths that some Gun Control advocates like to repeat.
Be aware that this piece is about 18 minutes long!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=145035468
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Really great piece on the Glock handgun, and gun control on NPR! [View all]
virginia mountainman
Jan 2012
OP
Please educate me on the direct and indirect harm people like me cause.
Atypical Liberal
Jan 2012
#13
"What does the percentage of guns used in crime have to do with carrying (or not)?"
Starboard Tack
Jan 2012
#28
No, you asked about 'most'.. when shown how rarely most guns or gun owners are used in crime..
X_Digger
Jan 2012
#33
No, your question is lame, because those things have little or nothing to do with crimes.
PavePusher
Jan 2012
#34
No-one carries extinguishers because you don't need to. They are in every public-access....
PavePusher
Jan 2012
#40
No, YOU moved the goalposts by changing the subject from probability to what criminals do with guns.
Atypical Liberal
Jan 2012
#46
Exactly. The few on this board may be wonderful carriers, it's all the others that are an issue.
Hoyt
Jan 2012
#18
IOW, "People shouldn't carry, in order to avoid a backlash against carrying."
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2012
#25
Regardless of political affiliation, they are hardly ever involved in crime.
Atypical Liberal
Jan 2012
#30
Not true. People are much less likely to get shot by someone who doesn't walk around with a gun.
Hoyt
Jan 2012
#32
But you don't live in a society where people don't walk around with guns!
Atypical Liberal
Jan 2012
#36
Of course they are. I just drew an analogy. Now answer the question.
Common Sense Party
Jan 2012
#23
In reality, what you mean is silly analogy = "an analogy that I don't like
Common Sense Party
Jan 2012
#54