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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Tell Us Something We Didn't Know
The National Academy of Sciences released a report stating that gun control laws don't reduce gun-related crime.
Hmmm... wonder what form of Happy Dance™ Kim (and other proper-thinking gun nuts/advocates) will do when he sees this.
The National Academy of Sciences issued a 328-page report based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey of 80 different gun-control laws and some of its own independent study. In short, the panel could find no link between restrictions on gun ownership and lower rates of crime, firearms violence or even accidents with guns.But, for some reason, they feel the need to do more research. Whatever you guys need to do to help you sleep at night. More research isn't going to change the results.
The panel was established during the Clinton administration and all but one of its members were known to favor gun control.That's got to hurt.
Meanwhile, a study released by the Justice Department suggesting background checks at gun shows would do little to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals.OK... so we've had two studies which, in the end, do nothing but point out what many of us already knew was just plain common sense. And they spent how much of our tax money on them?
The report was the result of interviews with more than 18,000 state and federal inmates conducted nationwide. It found that nearly 80 percent of those interviewed got their guns from friends or family members, or on the street through illegal purchases... Less than 9 percent were bought at retail outlets and only seven-tenths of 1 percent came from gun shows.Really? Never would have thunk it.
Hmmm... wonder what form of Happy Dance™ Kim (and other proper-thinking gun nuts/advocates) will do when he sees this.
