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September 19, 2016, 10:00 PM | #1 |
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Interesting article in, of all places, "The Trace!"
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/goo...arvard-survey/
Interestingly honest article from the normally anti-gun "The Trace." Note that while the anti's are quick to infer causality when higher homicide rates occur in high gun-ownership areas, they don't ascribe any of the lower homicide rates they cite in this article to higher rates of gun ownership and concealed carry.
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September 20, 2016, 03:22 AM | #2 | |
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Thanks. A very interesting article. They even went to the trouble to talk to Massad Ayoob and didn’t criticize him that much.
That web page had links to a couple other articles I read as well. One was kind of a touching story of a woman (not really a ‘gun’ person) who, years after her father dies, claims his rifles and shoots them. If you want to rag on the author for not knowing much about guns there is this paragraph but all in all it was an interesting article. Quote:
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/07/wha...guns-arkansas/ The second article was an utterly goofy thing about a photographer that camps out at shooting ranges. If you buy her spiel she’ll whip up an old timey tintype photo of you right there with the catch that you have to use the tintype as a target. That is, you have to shoot a target that is a picture of you. This is supposed to provoke deep thoughts and make you think of guns in a different way. Shrug. Read about the photographer here: https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/ari...hy-gun-owners/ |
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