Par4QC I spent 20 years of my life defending the Constitution. I didn't do it blindly.
Dumbest Thing I've read today, via the internet......
puttnfool And on the other hand, how many, do you suppose, of those 58 killed, owned weapons? And tell us how they protected them!! More than 200 injured. How many of them owned weapons. How did they protect them????
Nevermind. I'm reading they were all killed or injured, while they were not able to do anything towards the shooter.
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Bill Not exact, could not find pics, but these are so close to what I had to use. .22 & .410
Hickok? I think not......Dillon was better!
And....when your dad let's you take the gun out to hunt, and he counts the bullets beforehand, and after, you better not miss. Or just not shoot. He taught you. Failure is not an option, ya know.
Par4QC There are bag limits. A gun owner should know that. Then again, I'm quite sure you are not a hunter.
Not a hunter? I've killed my share. The bag limit for squirrels was 6 on hand and 12 in the freezer at home when I was a kid. The pump action shotgun came in handy often. No way you're reloading a single shot fast enough to get the 2nd or 3rd once you fire off that first shot.
I seem to hunt for bad golf shots - some days I bag a LOT!
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Here's an interesting read for you.
Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders
"Suburban households are 28.6% more likely to own guns than urban households. Despite lower gun ownership, urban areas experience much higher murder rates. One should not put much weight on this purely “cross-sectional” evidence over one point in time and many factors determine murder rates, but it is still interesting to note that so much of the country has both very high gun ownership rates and zero murders."
"This study shows how murders in the United States are heavily concentrated in very small areas. Few appreciate how much of the US has no murders each year. Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a very small set of urban areas, and any solution must reduce those murders."
Bill Yep, my first gun was a single shot .410 that I still have. Killed plenty of squirrels with that one, but loved it when I was given my 2nd gun, the pump action 20 gauge.
Par4QC That's like saying that since people have died in car crashes even though they were wearing their seatbelts that we should take the seatbelts out of all the vehicles on the road. That's ridiculous. Seatbelts are worn (and guns are carried) not because they make us invincible, but because they give us a chance.
Lott is a prolific author for both academic and popular publications. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and written nine books, including “More Guns, Less Crime,” “The Bias Against Guns,” and “Freedomnomics.” His most recent books are “Dumbing Down the Courts: How politics keeps the smartest judges off the bench” and “The War on Guns.”
He is currently a Fox News columnist.
Completely unbiased.
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Who is Lott?
Nevermind. I see. You completely avoided reading the statistics to show that the vast majority of the U.S. is murder free and went searching for someone's name that you didn't agree with everything they stood for just so you could try to say that the article wasn't legit. Sorry, but just because you think he's a meanie doesn't negate the facts in the article.
Read the statistics, and the article, they mean very little. Certainly not the conclusion you would like to get to. We could find stat sites all day long that support one side or another. Save it, and your smug my OPINION is right and yours is wrong attitude. My time will be better spent cleaning my AR rather than nibbling on troll bait.