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OneTenthofOnePercent

(6,268 posts)
38. Until legal gun carriers start shooting up innocent people in statistically significant #'s...
Tue Feb 21, 2012, 08:25 AM
Feb 2012

Then you will not be able to stop “Any Gun, Any Time, Any Place”.

The fact of the matter is that 99.9% of the time the LEGAL LAWFUL gun carriers are not the problem. Through selective representation they have lower incidence of criminal misconduct than the general public (sometimes even the police) and rarely cause problems. Sure, there a few instances of incidents as with any demographic this size - but the number of incidents compared to the select population being obserrved are nearly statistically insignificant.

Moreover, with the ease of information propogation and the internet, the public is learning this. Unless there is a massive consistent uptick in lawful carriers abusing their rights/priveleges then the public will not be swayed from current acceptance of gun rights expansion. The public is witnessing the past decades of massive gun rghts expansion... and blood is not "flowing in the streets" nor have we devolved into the "wild west". The antirights memes and half-truths have been tried and found fallacious. As with many anti-rights movements that have fallen by the wayside, predjudice & ignorance against guns and their owners appear to be the only thing keeping the anti gun rights movement alive.

The hypocricy with which liberal people proclaim to be avid proponents of an anti-rights movement is always good for a laugh.

the only reason a person needs a gun is for self protection against other gun owners nt msongs Feb 2012 #1
FAIL on so many levels. Remmah2 Feb 2012 #4
Yet you can't come up with a rational argument to post... rfranklin Feb 2012 #8
Read my last 1100 posts. Remmah2 Feb 2012 #49
Why is a firearm not protection against an attacker armed with a knife? spin Feb 2012 #15
Yes, because guns do not work against Kellerfeller Feb 2012 #19
So true! Such irony. Starboard Tack Feb 2012 #51
Except of course that it isn't true. AtheistCrusader Feb 2012 #56
Myth after myth without a shred of reality or evidence. TheWraith Feb 2012 #2
Who is crazier, the grabbers or the gun nuts? safeinOhio Feb 2012 #3
I can think of no societal pipoman Feb 2012 #5
IIRC, NICS was an NRA idea and the Brady-dips fought it. PavePusher Feb 2012 #13
Yeah, the original Brady bill looked nothing like what they got, pipoman Feb 2012 #21
I've never heard of a board member of the Brady group safeinOhio Feb 2012 #26
NRA head crazy people trump all that. safeinOhio Feb 2012 #25
I don't dispute that pipoman Feb 2012 #37
I don't think, other than gun control, the leadership safeinOhio Feb 2012 #39
On the other hand safeinOhio Feb 2012 #40
They have some extremist views on civil liberties. nt hack89 Feb 2012 #42
Not very extreme for DU members and supporters. safeinOhio Feb 2012 #43
They support handgun and semi-automatic rifle bans hack89 Feb 2012 #46
Are you saying you don't support safeinOhio Feb 2012 #47
I support the Democratic party and DU. hack89 Feb 2012 #48
They are one issue voters pipoman Feb 2012 #59
Can you actually have a tie if both are running away from the finish line? Glassunion Feb 2012 #6
Elliot Fineman is the Orly Taitz of gun control, and I'm glad he's around. friendly_iconoclast Feb 2012 #7
Kind of like Ted waving around his safeinOhio Feb 2012 #27
Clearly S_B_Jackson Feb 2012 #23
Wayne Lapierre's latest paranoid rant safeinOhio Feb 2012 #28
my conspiracy theory gejohnston Feb 2012 #32
While sitting in a barber shop back in 2008 safeinOhio Feb 2012 #33
Update on the 10 point plan, new conspiracy theory by Wayne safeinOhio Feb 2012 #34
so the theory is gejohnston Feb 2012 #35
video of NRA leadership's tenuous comprehension of reality safeinOhio Feb 2012 #30
what he does for gun rights gejohnston Feb 2012 #31
I think the NRA gets that prize. Starboard Tack Feb 2012 #52
Gun grabbers need to coordinate their messages better DonP Feb 2012 #9
as the costs of groceries continue to rise, I fully expect to see more and more Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #10
Now that would be good. Hope you're right. Starboard Tack Feb 2012 #53
Thank You fightthegoodfightnow Feb 2012 #11
When your quoted article starts with a blatent lie in the title and very first sentence.... PavePusher Feb 2012 #12
I really want one of those. jeepnstein Feb 2012 #50
Shooter on the grassy knoll.....and other conspiracy theories entertain me. ileus Feb 2012 #14
Like Obama's "secrete 10 point plan"? safeinOhio Feb 2012 #29
That post is very true. Hoyt Feb 2012 #16
Onward culture warriors... nt rrneck Feb 2012 #17
I promise I will tell you how it can be stopped (“Any Gun, Any Time, Any Place”) shadowrider Feb 2012 #18
Is it OK if I do something else while we wait? DonP Feb 2012 #20
taking your post seriously (why, I am not sure) Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #22
“Any Gun, Any Time, Any Place” rl6214 Feb 2012 #24
Just like "there will be blood in the streets" safeinOhio Feb 2012 #36
I would agree with you, I don't believe I have ever seen anyone on the gun control side say this. rl6214 Feb 2012 #60
Until legal gun carriers start shooting up innocent people in statistically significant #'s... OneTenthofOnePercent Feb 2012 #38
The majority of sane Americans safeinOhio Feb 2012 #45
Isn't it already burf Feb 2012 #54
Weak laws and safeinOhio Feb 2012 #55
Lobbyists who abuse hyperbole deserve to be taken out and shot. slackmaster Feb 2012 #41
I've told you a million times to stop saying things like that. DonP Feb 2012 #44
What kind of moronic statement is that? Starboard Tack Feb 2012 #57
It's a reductio ad absurdum slackmaster Feb 2012 #58
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