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More Guns = More Murders? A Myth. More Guns = Fewer Murders
Investors Business Daily, by John R. Lott Jr.
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 1/16/2013 7:45:34 PM
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| In the wake of the recent shootings, the liberal media have concluded we need more gun control. President Obama just signed 23 executive actions related to guns, and promises to do more later. To them the logic seems obvious, that more guns mean more deaths, suicides, and accidents. And the U.S. supposedly has very high murder rates, they argue, because our nation is teeming with guns. So with stricter gun control, we would suffer fewer murders and less violence. As Charles Blow recently claimed in the New York Times: "America has the highest gun homicide rate, the highest
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
ho72, 1/16/2013 8:12:58 PM (No. 9121141)
All factual and logical arguments, as were the arguments against a second term for Obama -- and we know how that turned out.
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joew9, 1/16/2013 8:52:15 PM (No. 9121199)
More murders - fewer murders. That statistic does not matter. It could get biased by criminals killing each other in massive numbers (which is what a large portion of the gun crime is). What does matter is fewer murders and violence against innocent law abiding people. Taking guns away from law abiding people will only mean violent crime against law abiding people will increase.
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dcomd, 1/16/2013 9:10:31 PM (No. 9121217)
It already has #2, just google ´black on white crime´ since this regime has taken over and that will give you a window into what the future holds.
And for those of you who will jump on the "Oh, that´s racist"; prove me wrong (btw, I micturate on you and jug-ears!)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fishermanswife, 1/16/2013 9:23:42 PM (No. 9121233)
pResident Helter Skelter.
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dvc, 1/16/2013 9:27:21 PM (No. 9121237)
Read his books. I have met and talked with John Lott for a few hours. Very bright reasearch economist who wandered into the gun research area, and was shocked at the hatred he got after a some simple research paper.
This piqued his interest, previously zero, in gun crime and it has been an interesting ride, as he has conclusively demolished the leftist and hoplophobe arguments with thorough and wide ranging research, and his mathematical and statistical research methods are absolute impeccable. They hate him but cannot factually challenge his work.
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hebrew_hammer, 1/16/2013 9:42:25 PM (No. 9121254)
We know that gun control is counterproductive - a negative externality in an already dysfunctional environment. However, I believe we need to stop arguing the point.
I did something for the first time today - I flatly told a boss of mine that he was wrong. He told me he was in favor of Obama´s EOs and I said I was entirely opposed.
He started arguing the usual asinine NPR points about irrelevant things like hunters and so on, and I said the usual things about the statistically provable inverse relationship between gun control and violent crime. At that point he accused me, and all Republicans, of "twisting the facts to prove [our] point."
Tell that to the ´Republican´ Senate in NY, huh?
Anyway, at that point, I gently denied being a liar, and asked him to put facts and figures aside for the moment (this is easy because he´s a lib). I then pointed out that none of that is of importance, regardless of violent crime rates, because:
1.) This is a human rights issue. Our Bill of Rights explicitly states this is a right of American citizens. In combination with our Declaration of Independence, it implies that it is a human right, bestowed upon us by G-d or nature.
2.) It is explicitly worded in our aforementioned Constitution, and by virtue of being in the top ten, has a special place within it. Regardless of what petty fascists like Obama and Feinstein say or do, that law says what it says - it´s not alive, and it is the foundational SUPREME law of the land. And certain things shall not be infringed.
These are the points we always need to make.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F16 guy, 1/16/2013 11:51:28 PM (No. 9121388)
I found this earlier:
"The great irony of this assault on one of the most important protections in the Constitution is that it is extremely unlikely that Obama himself could pass a background check required to obtain a firearm permit, as this requires submission of data that would be troubling for Obama, given the ongoing dispute about his birth narrative (place of birth) and undetermined citizenship status.
The permit also references unlawful drug use. It´s well known that Obama acknowledged illicit use of cocaine during the ´08 campaign; the type of hard drug use that would mean denial of a security clearance to an ordinary citizen seeking a GS-13 position in the federal government (http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-5310-12.pdf).
Obama was never vetted for his Constitutional eligibility; he cannot explain a Connecticut-based Social Security Number and has kept his citizenship-related records sealed from public disclosure, offering only online images (of his long-form birth certificate and draft registration) which computer and forensics experts have now widely declared to be crude forgeries."
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/6/2013 6:33:39 AM
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Is the Constitution becoming the left´s new target? That thought struck me the other night over dinner with my liberal friend, a lawyer and part-time professor. Among his choice statements, "Maybe it´s time to get rid of the Constitution and start over." No doubt he was echoing the sentiments of Georgetown law professor, Louis Michael Seidman, who suggested just that in a New York Times op-ed. It´s been several weeks since Seidman made his remarks, and now, it appears, the floodgates are open. Liberals feel they can speak freely about their true intentions for our country.
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American Thinker, by Deborah C. Tyler
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/6/2013 6:18:44 AM
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For the first time in my adult life, I am not proud of the First Lady. Mrs. Obama is frequently compared to Marie Antoinette. She spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on her own pleasure and aggrandizement while urging the peasants to plant gardens. And for the first time in American history, we have a president who insults us across the world, disavows the idea that American is special, enriches our enemies such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and degrades our achievements ("You didn´t build that."). Metaracism instilled in the Obamas the tragedy of ingratitude.
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Obama now reigns over Versailles on the Potomac. And America´s taxpayers are the vassals who bankroll the opulence of King Louis-Barack and Michelle Antoinette." Deroy Murdock (Hoover Institute, Scripts Howard) nails it in his National Review article. King Louis-Barack and his family really know how to share your pain. The "we´re all in this together" seer of America´s hope and change takes our bucks and we keep the change. "Let them eat lentils" is Michelle Antoinette´s airy solution to her growing food-stamp constituency (is M-Antoinette embarrassed at the girth of her loyal cohort?).
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 7:44:19 PM
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The lousy March jobs report jolted financial markets Friday, and understandably so. In a trend that has defined this weakest of all modern economic recoveries, the jobless rate keeps falling but largely because the labor force keeps shrinking. The unemployment rate fell to a new four-year low of 7.6%, from 7.7% in February. Good news, except the main reason for the decline was that nearly half a million Americans (496,000) left the civilian labor force. They retired, quit working, went back to school or gave up looking for work. The economy created a net 88,000 new jobs
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 7:28:13 PM
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White House press secretary Jay Carney said Friday that the administration wouldn´t be surprised if North Korea followed through on threats to launch a missile. "We´ve obviously seen the reports that North Korea may be making preparations to launch a missile. We´re monitoring this situation closely, and we would not be surprised to see them take such an action," Carney said during a press briefing. "We have seen them launch missiles in the past and the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly condemned them as violations of the North’s obligations under numerous Security Council resolutions,
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Rewrite the Second Amendment
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 7:18:22 PM
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A Connecticut shop that sold a gun to the Newtown school shooter´s mother has lost its federal firearms license. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the license of Riverview Gun Sales in East Windsor, about 15 miles north of Hartford, on December 20, and the 60-day time frame to appeal has expired. The agency didn´t disclose why it revoked the license. ´It´s been revoked. It´s final at this point,´ is all ATF spokeswoman Deb Seifert would tell reporters. It was first reported Thursday by The Journal News of White Plains, N.Y.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 7:03:20 PM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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White House Blames Jobs Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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