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Fucking loons:
"In response to Ezra Kleins report titled Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States, below are eight fictions about gun control.
Do note: all data cited below are from sources supportive of gun control.
Fiction 1: Armed Resistance Does Not Stop Mass Murders
The FBI defines mass murder as a number of murders (four or more) occurring during the same incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders.
Mother Jones, which Klein cites, claims armed civilians dont stop mass murderers.
Newtown certainly qualifies. But the Clackamas mall shooting does not, because an armed citizens brandishing was enough to drive the shooter to a stairwell, where he committed suicide after killing two victims. Mother Jones did not wish to count this incident. Yet in Armed Resistance to Crime, the authors found that over 75% of the time, the armed defenders never fired their guns yet their defense was successful.
Ron Borsch, manager of the SEALE Academy and longtime police trainer and member of the Bedford, Ohio Police Department, has been compiling mass murder data for over a decade. He has found that the most likely outcome in a mass murder situation where the murderer is confronted with armed resistance is the murderer committing suicide.
What if an armed defender had been present at Sandy Hook Elementary School?
Fiction 2: Gun Control Eliminates Dangerous Guns While Protecting the Second Amendment
Assuming Senator Feinstein gets her way, future mass murders would inevitably lead to calls for further restrictions. The goal of gun control is civilian disarmament.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence claims it fights for sensible gun laws to protect you, your family and your community. Since 2001, theyve published annual report cards rating each state on how many gun-control laws they have. States graded A enacted most of Bradys sensible laws; states graded F enacted the fewest.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did state-level surveys in 2001 and 2002, estimating the percent of households with a gun (Percent Gun Ownership, or PGO). Collating this with Brady grades shows that more gun control correlates perfectly with less guns (see table below). Its reasonable to extrapolate that incrementally enacting more sensible gun laws does in fact result in civilian disarmament:
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http://cdn.pjmedia.com/files/2012/12/Table-Average-PGO.jpg
"In response to Ezra Kleins report titled Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States, below are eight fictions about gun control.
Do note: all data cited below are from sources supportive of gun control.
Fiction 1: Armed Resistance Does Not Stop Mass Murders
The FBI defines mass murder as a number of murders (four or more) occurring during the same incident, with no distinctive time period between the murders.
Mother Jones, which Klein cites, claims armed civilians dont stop mass murderers.
Newtown certainly qualifies. But the Clackamas mall shooting does not, because an armed citizens brandishing was enough to drive the shooter to a stairwell, where he committed suicide after killing two victims. Mother Jones did not wish to count this incident. Yet in Armed Resistance to Crime, the authors found that over 75% of the time, the armed defenders never fired their guns yet their defense was successful.
Ron Borsch, manager of the SEALE Academy and longtime police trainer and member of the Bedford, Ohio Police Department, has been compiling mass murder data for over a decade. He has found that the most likely outcome in a mass murder situation where the murderer is confronted with armed resistance is the murderer committing suicide.
What if an armed defender had been present at Sandy Hook Elementary School?
Fiction 2: Gun Control Eliminates Dangerous Guns While Protecting the Second Amendment
Assuming Senator Feinstein gets her way, future mass murders would inevitably lead to calls for further restrictions. The goal of gun control is civilian disarmament.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence claims it fights for sensible gun laws to protect you, your family and your community. Since 2001, theyve published annual report cards rating each state on how many gun-control laws they have. States graded A enacted most of Bradys sensible laws; states graded F enacted the fewest.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did state-level surveys in 2001 and 2002, estimating the percent of households with a gun (Percent Gun Ownership, or PGO). Collating this with Brady grades shows that more gun control correlates perfectly with less guns (see table below). Its reasonable to extrapolate that incrementally enacting more sensible gun laws does in fact result in civilian disarmament:
"
http://cdn.pjmedia.com/files/2012/12/Table-Average-PGO.jpg
