I keep hearing from morons on the left that armed citizens don’t deter crime.
They say that the Aurora and Fort Hood shootings both occurred in places where there were lots of guns. I am curious how these people reach such spectacular levels of stupidity.
Cinemark movie theatres and military mess halls are gun-free zones, as were Newtown schools until a couple of weeks ago. That is why the shooters chose those places.
Are lefties actually stupid enough to believe that there were other armed people at these massacres, and they didn’t bother to shoot back? Do they honestly believe that a group of armed soldiers at Fort Hood didn’t bother to defend themselves?
Gun-free zones were invented by the left, and they are an invitation to psychopaths. No one would place their money in a security-free bank, so why would they do that to their children?
In colonial times citizens were required to own a gun, and required to take it to church on Sundays. I don’t recall any mass shooting sprees at colonial churches.
Interestingly, Wiki says that, “In the long term, violent crime in the United States has been in decline since colonial times.[9]”
Number nine? OK, let’s see…
“9 Fischer, Claude. “A crime puzzle: Violent crime declines in America”. UC Regents. http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2010/06/16/a-crime-puzzle-violent-crime-declines-in-america/. Retrieved 24 April 2012.”
From that Berkeley blogpost…
“The line in that graph represents my rough estimate of fluctuations in the U.S. rate of homicide over many more generations, drawing on the historical literature (see some references at the end of this post). While the details are informed guesses, the general trend is well-established.”
Oh! I get it. Another founding father hating anti-American Berkeley nutbag has just pulled yet another stat out of his ‘data collection center’. Run with it.
Again, I will state (aside from indian attacks) you do not hear of many slaughters in colonial America where everyone was required to have a firearm.
And now the CO House of Reps wants open up more gun ranges for psychopaths with HB-1226: Bans armed self-defense on college campuses; expanding criminal safe-zones to all state college and university campuses. Should read, “…expanding safe-zones for criminals…”.
The vote is today. As Steve says, call your state representatives while you still have them.
Calling policy opponents “morons” renders your influence on moderates null trending to negative. It’s urban voters trying to cope with real gang violence that pulls you small town folk into the process of disarmament of the soldiers of Drug War profit fueled gang wars. You haven’t done your homework on this issue like you have with climatology.
Drugs are illegal? Who knew? Those drug bans sure are working out swell. You can now add Drug and Arms Trade fueled gang wars. How’s that for homework.
Urban voters are coping by completely disarming their fellow honest urbanites while un-avoidably ignoring the law-breakers which such laws can never, by definition, impact. That’s real logical.
They ( and you Nik? ) through their moronic voting and Pollyanna laws have successfully constructed an Escape From New York siege scenario for themselves ( yourselves? ) where only your cops and criminals have guns. Congratulations.
Me, I got outta town long ago and trust me, the folks out here can be trusted, where I was and where you are now – not a chance.
I got you pegged as a carpet bagger that moved into the city perhaps long ago, one who needs to fell part of something. Well you got your wish, you are part of the great liberal experiment to see what happens if you are kind to criminals and kick out the normal trustworthy folk.
The only way that urban liberal-think can be logically fulfilled is if every gun everywhere were melted to slag after every square inch of lthe planet were searched and each one confiscated, all factories making them obliterated, and every person desiring one or possessing the know-how to construct one were summarily liquidated. If you are rational you know this is no more possible than counting the drops of water in the ocean ( hell, we can’t even count a few million votes accurately on election day ). So that leaves you either rational or irrational, which is it?
No go ahead and prove the appropriateness of title of this thread.
“Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man”
– George Bernard Shaw
All the years I spent in my youth hearing about the great George Bernard Shaw, not once did anyone ever mentioned he was a eugenist, and fan of Hitler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQvsf2MUKRQ