Legislators push new law to ban guns in public places

[DanTex]

71. "All gunsandcrime did was reprint other's work" = False

You're really outdoing yourself tonight gej. By now readers will be accustomed to a lot of false statements by pro-gunners, but you are certainly raising the bar.

Germany and UK the exceptions gee wizz. You whine about two exceptions.

False again -- it's not just two exceptions (e.g. Australia, Netherlands, etc.). In the future, don't use the word "all" when you mean "some". Big difference.

Hememway is hardly a reputable researcher. He is a hack that depends on Joyce money to publish his crap.

Actually he is a Harvard professor, and a reputable researcher by any definition. The only people who think he is a hack are gun militants, and the only reason they think that is because his research doesn't support their political agenda. It's got nothing to do with funding because you and others will just as easily slander any number of other researchers whose work is funded by government grants. Anyway, good luck trying to convince anyone outside the NRA bubble to go with the internet gun militants over the Harvard researchers...

Progressives are just as prone to mindless groupthink as anyone else.

Wrong again. Conservatives are more prone to mindless groupthink than progressives. Please spare me the mindless David Brooks style "both sides do it" centrism. Actually there is a huge difference between progressives and conservatives, and it's not a coincidence that gun militancy, along with things like religious fundamentalism, bigotry, and denial of science are all more common on the right.