🚀 go-pugleaf

chrisb@natinst.com (Chris Bartz) writes:
>>> The pattern I see is that in the past 24 months or so,  Americans
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>>  armed with guns. Offenses committed with pistols and
>>  revolvers rose from 9.2% in 1979 to 12.7% in 1992,
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>>  according to the National Crime Victimization Survey."
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>I note that 1992 is about 24 months ago making this report totally
>meaningless for the period of time being discussed.

    Good eyes Chris. This is the typical misleading comparisons gun banners
    love to throw at people. 
    
    Remember the "cop-killer" bullet hysteria? It was never sold to the 
    public. The proposed law would have banned virtually all rifle
    ammunition, so of course the NRA opposed it. That the NRA actually
    wrote the "cop-killer" bullet law now on the books somehow gets over-
    looked by these dishonest people.

    Remember the "plastic gun" hysteria? HCI used the example of a
    California man taking a plane down and killing several people as
    fuel for this fire, despite the fact that he actually had a Ruger
    large-frame STEEL handgun and used his relationship to the airline
    to walk completely around the metal detectors. 

    Now we've seen the "assault weapon" ban actually written into law
    despite the fact that this is among the most rare type of guns to
    be used in crime. one of the guns specifically banned is among the
    most popular target rifles in the country.

    If gun banners told the truth they wouldn't have a case.

-- 
    Kevin Langston   
    langston@frontier.lonestar.org