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"Let's be perfectly candid about the demise after 10 years of the dearly departed federal 'ban' on 'assault weapons.' It didn't really ban anything."
"Ask any kid on any high-crime street in America. They can tell you."
"Yes, crime rates overall took a welcome dip while the law was in effect in the 1990s, but that dip can be attributed to many reasons, including aggressive arrests and prosecutions. Meanwhile, the supply of heavy-duty weapons was hardly effected, thanks to the law's limits and loopholes." ...
"Yet, most Americans want to do something, however modest it may be, to at least slow down the high tide of high-capacity weapons flooding this country. A University of Pennsylvania National Annenberg Election Survey in April found that 71 percent of respondents, including 64 percent of those in households with guns, supported a renewal of the ban."
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How many of these 71 percent actually understand that these weapons are involved in a miniscule percentage of gun crimes? And how many are simply reacting to propaganda and blood in the press and emotionalist appeals by gun banners? |
| Comment by:
larmobur@keepandbeararms.com
(9/26/2004)
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Has anyone else noticed that the gun-grabbers are all using the same survey? Every comment I have seen has used the Annenberg survey, is that the only one that gave them the results they wanted?
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| Comment by:
lwarner11@hotmail.com
(9/27/2004)
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Exactly! It's also the only one for which there is no data available. We don't know what questions were asked, how many were asked, or how the answers were arranged.
No data = no validity! |
| Comment by:
lee2mcgee@aol.com
(9/27/2004)
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| Just guessing, but probably 90% of Mr. Page's articles are in some way connected to blacks, minorities, and/or civil rights issues. While quoting the Annenburg survey, I suppose he just forgot that during the Civil War a plurality of Americans did not look kindly upon Mr. Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclimation. All of us (including Mr. Page) should give thanks to "a bunch of old dead white guys" that we don't live in a democracy - rule by the majority. |
| Comment by:
Sky
(9/27/2004)
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| The Misinformation that I have ran into personally is just scary. I have had to prove to 2 or 3 family members and one former cop that they would not be able to buy full-auto from their local gun store now. They all had about the same thing to tell me "but CBS, ABC, NBC told me bla bla bla" I can excuse the my family members for falling for the propaganda but a former police officer now that is unforgivable. The Worse part I was able to educate the family but the Former LEO just "knew" he was right and I was wrong. |
| Comment by:
sky
(9/27/2004)
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The LEO and my parting remarks to each other went
HIM - Put LEOs will be out gunned and those things go threw bulletproof Vests
ME - So do Hunting rifles and farther more you wouldn't have to worry as much about someone shooting you if more LEOs would start acting like what they are "public servants" and not jack booted thugs
Sorry all you LEOs that visit this site this was just my opinion on the general attitude from some LEO's that I have ran into personaly
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| Comment by:
skslover
(9/27/2004)
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Sky, the next time a LEO says something like, "and those things go threw bulletproof Vests" to you, just respond;
Well I guess they aren't really bullet proof, now are they? |
| Comment by:
msmoulton@iname.com
(9/28/2004)
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| Project Exile was the product of a Republican governor. Clinton had nothing to do with it. |
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