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In reply to the discussion: The CDC study on guns...shut down. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)113. You might be interested in what the CDC said themselves about gun-control strategies:
http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121001/EDITORIAL/121009979/1015
The CDC Task Force studying gun-control strategies (including John Lott's work that claimed more guns = less crime) issued this executive summary:
The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.
Of course, the writer of this article can be keel-hauled because he is an NRA instructor. But you can find the CDC material on your own. So much for the "public health" model of gun-control.
The CDC Task Force studying gun-control strategies (including John Lott's work that claimed more guns = less crime) issued this executive summary:
The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes.
Of course, the writer of this article can be keel-hauled because he is an NRA instructor. But you can find the CDC material on your own. So much for the "public health" model of gun-control.
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It must be rough only getting to troll the occasional GD gun related thread NT
Trunk Monkey
Oct 2012
#3
You got lucky. A jury voted 3-3 on what is clearly and only a personal attack
Electric Monk
Oct 2012
#25
No, when the 'king of all trolls' accuses other of trolling it must be a slow day in the gun forum
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#55
I would suggest same for those who have to strap a gun or two on to venture into public.
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#77
First I have to clarify that when I'm done working I'm usually home for the day
Trunk Monkey
Oct 2012
#185
There's needs to be laws passed that make assault , suicide and violence against other people illegal
former-republican
Oct 2012
#4
And there is your confusion: murder rates are not total firearm related deaths.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#83
you are talking about crime stats. The CDC numbers are not the same at all.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#130
Is it wrong that people have a quick and easy way to kill themselves?
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#106
Do you disagree that gun violence and deaths have significantly declined in the past 30 years?
hack89
Oct 2012
#61
Right: "30,000 gun deaths each year isn't a crisis." That's the GOP talking, of course.
baldguy
Oct 2012
#117
Might be even less had we said "No" decades ago to those who believe more guns, in more places,
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#186
Support for gun control is soft because it's been endlessly propagandized by the RW for 40 yrs.
baldguy
Oct 2012
#217
The issue of "assault rifles" has been discussed numerous times in this forum.
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#104
There is an urban myth, with considerable truth to it, that cops are chronically...
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#136
What are they doing to research better flash-bangs and non(er, less than?)-lethal weapons?
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#143
When crime goes up the answer is clear: too many guns. More guns = more crime!
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#110
National "facts" aside, your statement simply isn't true up here in the PNW...
countryjake
Oct 2012
#212
Agree - but lethal weapons embolden some folks. Georgie Zimmernan is good example.
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#10
That's a big part of it. The other part is that NRA's leadership - including Grover Norquist, John
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#40
There are people who smoke a pack a day their entire lives and never get lung cancer.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#133
Well yeah... you'd have to actually take it out of your storage location....
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#67
Probably a good solution for you. I have several firearms, locked up to prevent
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#102
Anytime one proposes a law -- especially a ban -- they must show how such action will resolve...
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#114
You might be interested in what the CDC said themselves about gun-control strategies:
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#113
Well played. Not that it will do any good where prohibition is concerned. nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#115
Thank the Supreme Court for strengthening the influence of special interests on our government. n/t
porphyrian
Oct 2012
#43
We don't need to spend money on frivolous studies to prove that dangerous weapons are dangerous
slackmaster
Oct 2012
#44
Those who speak out against this OP do not believe in the 1st amendment but otherwise
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#45
Because guns are a natural part of the human anatomy that you are born with
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2012
#52
"Those who speak out against this OP do not believe in the 1st amendment"?!?!
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#68
Yup yup uhuh yeppers who haw yee haw get the guns boyz we're going out to the movies
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#72
I know and sigh that the gun industry has absorbed so many into their thinking.
Whovian
Oct 2012
#154
Back in the day, when I was a kid, people had rifles and shotguns for hunting
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#155
Interesting stats. Compared to Canada, the firearm homicide rate per 100,000 is less than 1/5 ...
sl8
Oct 2012
#158
Guns as an instrument of murder or assault. In this case 2/3's of murderers decided on a gun.
Whovian
Oct 2012
#162
A certain percentage of the people that would use a gun would use something else.
krispos42
Oct 2012
#178
Mr Polize man, this is DEMOCRATIC Underground, not Free Republic or the NRA blog
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#79
Oh, he would be assured if Officer Blart answered 9-1-1 and answered: "Hold on...
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#126
Sorry, but "we say" PRO-2A. And most of DU agrees. Got it? Hold onto it. Firmly. nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#125
He stumbled drunkenly, like a robot, from the porta-John, trailing toilet paper before all.nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#129
You're doing nothing but living up to the promise of your screen name. Good luck with that. n/t
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#150
As I understand the law, funding requirements prohibit advocacy or promotion of gun control.
aikoaiko
Oct 2012
#145