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Re: Is more stringent gun control inevitable?
The problem is is that the facts surrounding guns and crime in the United States support Lott and smack around the anti gun propagandists like the VPC and Everytown for gun bans. The number of weapons in civilian circulation has gone WAY WAY up in the last 20 years. The number of civilians who are not police carrying concealed weapons has GONE WAY WAY up in the last 20 years. the number of semi automatic weapons with 20-30 round magazines has drastically increased in civilian hands in the last 20 years and YET, the number of both intentional homicides and accidental shootings with firearms has gone down
The anti gun movement claimed
1) more guns in the hands of citizens=more guns being used for crime
2) the liberalization of CCW laws means "blood in the streets" etc
3) the sunsetting of the clinton gun ban and the ending of the silly restriction on normal capacity magazines would lead to massive numbers of "assault weapon deaths"
NONE OF THAT HAS COME TRUE
so Lott is right and the gun restrictionist propagandists are WRONG
The information about Lott, his silly organization with the pompous name and his bogus study with the cherry picked methodology that renders it null and void have been thoroughly presented in my previous posts and links on the previous page. Its right there for you Turtle.
The problem is is that the facts surrounding guns and crime in the United States support Lott and smack around the anti gun propagandists like the VPC and Everytown for gun bans. The number of weapons in civilian circulation has gone WAY WAY up in the last 20 years. The number of civilians who are not police carrying concealed weapons has GONE WAY WAY up in the last 20 years. the number of semi automatic weapons with 20-30 round magazines has drastically increased in civilian hands in the last 20 years and YET, the number of both intentional homicides and accidental shootings with firearms has gone down
The anti gun movement claimed
1) more guns in the hands of citizens=more guns being used for crime
2) the liberalization of CCW laws means "blood in the streets" etc
3) the sunsetting of the clinton gun ban and the ending of the silly restriction on normal capacity magazines would lead to massive numbers of "assault weapon deaths"
NONE OF THAT HAS COME TRUE
so Lott is right and the gun restrictionist propagandists are WRONG