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Nov
18
Believe me! “They” know who you are.
November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Sometimes, at gun shows, I meet people who don’t want to join a pro-individual rights organization, because they don’t want to be “on a list.” They don’t want “Those People” to know who they are. The non-participants in the debate won’t write letters or make phone calls, because “They” will identify the low profile folks as individuals who [...]
Aug
11
National Research Council nixes national ballistic database for now!
August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The National Research Council (NRC), in a report released in March of this year and reported in Science Daily, has recommended against the creation of a nation-wide database made up of ballistic images of all “new and imported guns” sold in the U.S. ”Current technology” apparently “may not reliably distinguish very fine differences in large volumes [...]
Aug
7
Brady Campaign accuses guns of murder! No trials yet. Some killers apparently held without bail at police stations.
August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
While trolling for tidbits of information from the other side of the gun debate, I came across an interesting poster on the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence Website. The poster claims that in 2004, “Guns murdered” 11,344 people in the United States. I suppose what they mean is that guns were used by American [...]
Jul
24
There is an interesting remark concerning gun safety education in the Executive Summary of the massive National Academy of Sciences study. (1) The NAS Executive Summary opined that school firearms safety education may not be desirable, because it may increase interest in guns and “risky” behavior, and may, in fact, promote youthful handling of guns (gasp!) and hence, [...]
Jul
13
Dick Morris, “Heller and “schizophrenic” attitude about guns (Part 2)
July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
In Part 1, we discussed what I believe to be the fact that the recent Heller Supreme Court case merely affirmed 200 years of “Standard Model” legal precedents that the Second Amendment clearly recognizes an individual right to keep and bear arms. In Part 2, we will deal with Mr. Morris’s belief that “strict gun controls” save [...]
Jul
10
On 07-01-08, Dick Morris, former Clinton advisor turned Fox News Analyst, wrote for jewishworldreview.com that the Supreme Court of the U.S. chose “…the wrong time…to make a sea change…admitting the Second Amendment to our pantheon of civil liberties…by demonstrating how willing they are to toss aside decades of jurisprudence in pursuit of a conservative agenda…” Mr. [...]
Jul
6
Gun suicide article typical “advocacy journalism”
July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment
The headline reads,” Gun owners more often kill themselves than others. In the high court’s ruling on gun ownership, the dissenting opinion cited suicides as a reason to uphold the firearms ban.” (Stobbe, Mike, The Associated Press, The Denver Post, Denver Newspaper Agency, Denver, CO, 07-01-08, Page 9A.) I believe this article is a typical [...]
Jul
1
Imagine a nightmare. Barack H. Obama is President of the United States with a 60 vote supermajority in the U.S. Senate that can override any filibuster. The Democrats control the U.S. House of Representatives and most state legislatures.
The “Fairness Doctrine” kills conservative talk radio and mandates “diverse” local radio stations run by left-wing women and [...]
May
20
Good Review of Major Gun Issue Research
May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
Ran across a good annotated review of major research in the debate on guns by bodo. “Critical Juncture, Some Notes on Gun Control, B27111/Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:28:09/”War on Terror”
http://bodo.gnn.tv/blogs/27111/Some_Notes_On_Gun_Control.
One interesting thing about the gun control debate is the number of honest scientists, who start out with the hypothesis that guns somehow [...]
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