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Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts) Wed Jun 22, 2016, 03:52 PM Jun 2016

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Xpost from Good Reads:The uncomfortable truth about gun rights supporters–sometimes they are right [View all]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016161497

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/22/gun-rights-supporters-national-rifle-association-nra

The uncomfortable truth about gun rights supporters – sometimes they are right
Lois Beckett

...Let the record show: calm, reasonable, friendly Americans also believe in gun rights...

...As incomplete and imprecise as much gun data is, the bigger picture is clear: most guns are not being used in crimes. Most gun owners are not committing crimes.

Even David Hemenway, a leading public health researcher who is skeptical of how many good things are done with guns, concedes this point.

“The large majority of gun owners aren’t going to do anything good or bad for public health with their guns this year,” he said.

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Xpost from Good Reads:The uncomfortable truth about gun rights supporters–sometimes they are right [View all] friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 OP

Most gun owners probably don't fire their weapons too often PJMcK Jun 2016 #1

A questionable stat. Straw Man Jun 2016 #9

The NRA is only a very small part of the issue. benEzra Jun 2016 #12

Uncomfortable truth, many causes of gun violence... sanatanadharma Jun 2016 #2

"...gun wielders need to be profiled and quarantined" Would that include the ones that... friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #3

Sure, that whole 4th and 5th amendment thing is overrated DonP Jun 2016 #4

The Constitution and sarisataka Jun 2016 #6

How very ...unsurprising. Off to the Gun Control's Greatest Hits page with that one: friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #7

Would you like us sarisataka Jun 2016 #5

Nope - the one constant is the wielder of the gun - attacking the innocent. jonno99 Jun 2016 #8

Gainesville, Florida had a quarantine for yellow fever in 1888... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #10

gun wielders need to be profiled and quarantined...now that's progressive thinking. ileus Jun 2016 #11

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