New Blog Tests Factual Foundations of Opposition to Gun Control

Drizzt · May 1, 2011, 02:37 AM

New Blog Tests Factual Foundations of Opposition to Gun Control

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-Bl....html?x=0&.v=1

Know your enemies....

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**Spats McGee** · May 1, 2011, 08:14 AM

Hm. For a retired professor of criminology, who claims to be testing the factual underpinnings of the pro-2A arguments, he seems remarkably uninterested in citing to any sort of authority. (Read: I couldn't find a single in the whole blog.) For example, in "More Guns, Less Crime," the author claims that "[a] National Rifle Association document issued in 2010, ironically, provides data to undermine its champion scientist’s claim[,]" but makes no mention of what that document is, or where it can be found. If I were an anti, I'd be dying to know where to find that document. If you're going to go about the business of debunking the pro-2A arguments, shouldn't you cite some studies, some Federalist papers, something?

This blogger also claims to be the author of a "documentary novel." Isn't that an oxymoron?

Nitesites · May 1, 2011, 08:42 AM

Why is it when Gun Control advocates argue against our RKBA, they attempt to enforce the ideal that it was only penned to secure armed militias or a standing army BUT all other Amendments are recognized as individual's rights?

**Tom Servo** · May 1, 2011, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Lacking specific evidence of a legislative intent to endow the Second Amendment with the right of the individual to keep arms for self defense, nearly all of [Supreme Court Justice Scaila] sixty- four page opinion mixes linguistic analysis with circumstantial evidence, from which he finds it “clear” that bearing arms is an individual right.

I wouldn't even bother debating this guy.

**Spats McGee** · May 1, 2011, 10:01 AM

I wouldn't ordinarily bother debating him, and don't plan on it, but I think it bears taking a look at his blog. He's the kind of anti that's credible enough, and well-spoken enough to actually be dangerous. GoTimothy, referenced in another thead, is an obvious loon. This guy's not obvious.

Glenn E. Meyer · May 1, 2011, 01:54 PM

Again, this is a copyright problem and drive-by.

Closed.

May 1, 2011, 02:37 AM	#1
Drizzt Senior Member Join Date: October 25, 2000 Location: Moscow on the Colorado, TX Posts: 2,560	New Blog Tests Factual Foundations of Opposition to Gun Control New Blog Tests Factual Foundations of Opposition to Gun Control http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-Bl....html?x=0&.v=1 Know your enemies.... Copyright __________________ "That a free citizen should have to go before a committee, hat in hand, and pray for permission to bear arms - fantastic! Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats." Robert Heinlein - Red Planet

May 1, 2011, 01:54 PM	#6
Glenn E. Meyer Senior Member Join Date: November 17, 2000 Posts: 20,064	Again, this is a copyright problem and drive-by. Closed. __________________ NRA, TSRA, IDPA, NTI, Polite Soc. - Aux Armes, Citoyens

May 1, 2011, 08:14 AM	#2
Spats McGee Staff Join Date: July 28, 2010 Location: Arkansas Posts: 8,821	Hm. For a retired professor of criminology, who claims to be testing the factual underpinnings of the pro-2A arguments, he seems remarkably uninterested in citing to any sort of authority. (Read: I couldn't find a single in the whole blog.) For example, in "More Guns, Less Crime," the author claims that "[a] National Rifle Association document issued in 2010, ironically, provides data to undermine its champion scientist’s claim[,]" but makes no mention of what that document is, or where it can be found. If I were an anti, I'd be dying to know where to find that document. If you're going to go about the business of debunking the pro-2A arguments, shouldn't you cite some studies, some Federalist papers, something? This blogger also claims to be the author of a "documentary novel." Isn't that an oxymoron?

May 1, 2011, 08:42 AM	#3
Nitesites Senior Member Join Date: March 28, 2011 Posts: 600	Why is it when Gun Control advocates argue against our RKBA, they attempt to enforce the ideal that it was only penned to secure armed militias or a standing army BUT all other Amendments are recognized as individual's rights?

May 1, 2011, 10:01 AM	#5
Spats McGee Staff Join Date: July 28, 2010 Location: Arkansas Posts: 8,821	I wouldn't ordinarily bother debating him, and don't plan on it, but I think it bears taking a look at his blog. He's the kind of anti that's credible enough, and well-spoken enough to actually be dangerous. GoTimothy, referenced in another thead, is an obvious loon. This guy's not obvious.