This should be required reading...
Dec. 20th, 2012 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritfor everyone who thinks we need to ban guns in America. Or ban certain kinds of guns. Or ban high-capacity magazines. The handsome and hard-working Larry Correia lays out his credentials, and why all of that is a very bad idea, in a calm and thoughtful manner.
Yes, it's long. And everybody should read every single word. I'm not kidding.
Yes, it's long. And everybody should read every single word. I'm not kidding.
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Date: 2012-12-20 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 07:37 pm (UTC)Fortunately, Larry keeps a better rein on his temper than I do and his normal caustic wit is absent from this article. It is calm, factual, and blows every single one of their arguments completely out of the water.
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Date: 2012-12-20 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 08:58 pm (UTC)How about taking advice from a person who owned a gun shop and taught concealed carry classes? How about taking advice from someone who has studied the issue from start to finish? How about taking advice from someone who has worked extensively with law enforcement and military personnel? He lays out his credentials right there.
How about taking the argument on its merits instead of using an ad hominem attack?
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Date: 2012-12-20 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:39 pm (UTC)Of course he's biased. I'm biased too. I bet you are as well. The difference between him and me, and so-called "news organs" and Democrats, is that we make no effort to hide our bias under a guise of impartiality.
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Date: 2012-12-20 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 09:27 pm (UTC)And I find it interesting that when he talks about the four mass killing attempts from last week in order to point out the futility of gun-free zones, the one with the fewest (zero) casualties is in fact the one from the "gun free" country/zone.
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Date: 2012-12-20 09:33 pm (UTC)I would argue that "no deaths" does not equal "not horrific." I think the incident in China was used as an example of "evil people will find a way to be evil even if they don't have access to a gun" more than anything else.
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Date: 2012-12-20 09:39 pm (UTC)I tweeted this earlier, it's gun control stats. “States that allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns enjoy a 60 percent decrease in multiple-victim public shootings and a 78 percent decrease in victims per attack.” John Lott, Jr. and Bill Landes, “More Guns, Less Crime.” [Image: Concealed Carry Licenses, Ohio Free Press, 2009. Federal court recently struck down Illinois’ state-wide concealed carry ban.]
http://www.ijreview.com/2012/12/26022-9-must-see-gun-control-statistics/2/
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Date: 2012-12-20 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-20 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 03:32 am (UTC)Speaking as a lefty with a well-restrained inner pyromaniac (I indulge that side of myself with the odd flaming dessert these days), explosives are alarming easy to make. Making them in such a way that one can still count to twenty-one afterward (or twenty, in the case of female would-be bombers) is only slightly harder. And there's a lot of info on the net -- I'm sure some of it is accurate.
(Sorry. I've been half-expecting to see that come up for years. McVeigh at least turned out to be an outlier, as opposed to the start of a trend.)
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Date: 2012-12-21 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-21 03:41 pm (UTC)It was interesting to read a logical piece of writing after an emotional event.
Because 'we' are all about making noise about change after something terrible happens and then time goes by and then nothing changes, it's forgotten and then the next terrible thing happens and it's "rinse and repeat'
I understand why everyone believes if we take away guns that will solve the problem but unless you have a magical spell to make every gun on earth disapear all you are doing is removing training and guns from the people who are there to protect us. Evil people don't care about the law and will always find an alarming easy way to get what they need.
And if we do find that magic spell it wil have to eventually include explosives, knives, a stick with a nail on the end of it, pointy sticks, fire....
As a rule we are a creative society when it comes to trying to kill each other.
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Date: 2012-12-21 06:56 pm (UTC)Well, duh. When you find a magic bullet (ha) for that, let the rest of us know, okay? In the meantime, me and my incipient concealed carry permit will be over here protecting myself and my family.
Also, in the meantime, tell me how disarming me makes me safer. Because I really want to know how the "logic" works there.