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Saw this on DP yesterday, really good video
Here's a good one:
I'd add in a comparison of crime rates prior 1982. I can't remember the exact statistic, but wasn't it something like a 95% decrease in the first year or so. I remember it was a dramatic difference.
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Wow, great stuff. I have been making the same arguments for weeks!
To answer one question: no one will take credit for the drop in murder rates because the trend goes beyond more than one Administration. God forbid anyone say anything good about the other Party.
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That's the liberal way. Instead of following suit and passing similar laws upon seeing that increased gun ownership stopped crime, let's just sue the town like a bunch of idiots.
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Statistical bump.
Politicians have nothing to do with the drop in crime rates... its the freedom to own firearms and improvement in overall wealth for everyone... although that has taken a turn lately..
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Taking guns from law-abiding citizens only makes it easier for criminals. Period.
In Texas many of us still remember the Luby's massacre and fully understand that the restrictions on carrying weapons at the time certainly led to a higher body count that day.
George Hennard walked into Luby's in Killeen TX in October of 1991 and shot 23 people. He had several guns and reloaded several times. This eventually led to passage of a concealed carry law which removed many restrictions for carrying a concealed weapon in Texas. The law had been campaigned for by Suzanna Hupp, who witnessed the murders of both parents that day in Luby's. She had left her gun in the car for fear of getting in trouble for carrying it in the restaurant; during the shootings, she reached for her weapon but then remembered that it was "a hundred feet away in my car."
What many do not know is that there were police officers in the hotel next door who were in a training class. The hotel operator asked the officers to leave their weapons in the car so they lost precious minutes retrieving their weapons instead of being able to go directly to Luby’s.
If either Suzanne or the police officers next door had their weapons on them, surely less innocent people would have died that day.
Luby’s Massacre Victim Debates Gun Control With Misinformed CNN Host
January 7, 2013
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/lubys-massacre-victim-debates-gun-control-with-misinformed-cnn-host/
In Texas many of us still remember the Luby's massacre and fully understand that the restrictions on carrying weapons at the time certainly led to a higher body count that day.
George Hennard walked into Luby's in Killeen TX in October of 1991 and shot 23 people. He had several guns and reloaded several times. This eventually led to passage of a concealed carry law which removed many restrictions for carrying a concealed weapon in Texas. The law had been campaigned for by Suzanna Hupp, who witnessed the murders of both parents that day in Luby's. She had left her gun in the car for fear of getting in trouble for carrying it in the restaurant; during the shootings, she reached for her weapon but then remembered that it was "a hundred feet away in my car."
What many do not know is that there were police officers in the hotel next door who were in a training class. The hotel operator asked the officers to leave their weapons in the car so they lost precious minutes retrieving their weapons instead of being able to go directly to Luby’s.
If either Suzanne or the police officers next door had their weapons on them, surely less innocent people would have died that day.
Luby’s Massacre Victim Debates Gun Control With Misinformed CNN Host
January 7, 2013
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/lubys-massacre-victim-debates-gun-control-with-misinformed-cnn-host/
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