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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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10. The Wright-Rossi Study should be undertaken again.

Reply to spin (Reply #5)

Fri May 9, 2014, 06:16 PM

May 2014

Future studies which purport to show a relationship between crime on the one hand, and gun #s/laws/CCW/etc. on the other, will probably have to deal with a tricky statiscal model based on criminal perspective & consequential behavioral change. Wright & Rossi seem to be out front in this.

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Florida legislature 2014 ... firearm bills, what passed and what failed. ... [View all] spin May 2014 OP

Sadly the only way to deal with guns ultimately is let their inevitable consequence play out randys1 May 2014 #1

What should be done? discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2014 #2

Do what Canada did randys1 May 2014 #3

Which is? n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2014 #4

Read on randys1 May 2014 #8

Thanks discntnt_irny_srcsm May 2014 #9

Such incidents do occur and they are very tragic. However, fortunately, they are rare. .... spin May 2014 #5

The Wright-Rossi Study should be undertaken again. Eleanors38 May 2014 #10

With gun violence steadily declining for 20 years hack89 May 2014 #6

The types of incidents you list, combined, represent a tiny minority of firearm injuries. Lizzie Poppet May 2014 #7

"surrounded by gun nuts." I live in Texas, but don't share your "danger and sickness." Eleanors38 May 2014 #12

Of 2 laws which failed... Eleanors38 May 2014 #11

I believe that Neighborhood Watch groups in Florida discourage members ... spin May 2014 #13

Yeah, that's the legal unenforceability of Watch's standards Eleanors38 May 2014 #14

In some neighborhoods being a neighborhood watch volunteer might make you a target. ... spin May 2014 #15

only California SYG allows to chase down someone after the attack gejohnston May 2014 #16

I agree. Self defense should not be an abstract notion. Eleanors38 May 2014 #17