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Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-25-11 07:54 AM
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Opposing view: Restricting firearms makes us less safe...
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Amanda Collins was a student at University of Nevada’s Reno campus in 2007. Even though she had a concealed carry permit, she was unarmed the night she was brutally raped by James Biela. She had left her gun at home because she was scared of what could happen to her if she was caught disobeying the laws prohibiting firearms on campus. Amanda feels certain she could have used her gun successfully that night. “I would have at some point during my rape been able to stop James Biela,”
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Anti-gun extremists always claim that allowing citizens to carry guns will result in random shootouts. But the truth is that these Chicken Little predictions never materialize.

Take El Paso, which was ranked by CQ Press as America’s safest city in 2010. El Paso is situated in a very pro-gun state where people can easily carry concealed firearms. Residents there live quite peacefully, despite being located across from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico— a town with very stringent gun control laws and one of the highest murder rates in the world.

Restricting firearms only makes us less safe. So let’s applaud the almost 7,000 Americans a day who use firearms in self-defense to deter criminals.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-04-24-guns-save-lives.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Just as in the Amanda Collins case, if the antis had their way, they would deny all of us the right to self defense..
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