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Gun Control & RKBA

COLGATE4

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2. A university (I believe Yale was in the lead) did a study on young

Reply to Duckhunter935 (Original post)

Sun Jun 26, 2016, 02:38 PM

Jun 2016

children who had been through programs that taught them exactly to do that. When they tested them, they found that the children, almost without exception picked up and handled the 'gun' used for the testing. Seems that teaching them to do that doesn't overcome youthful curiosty. Unfortunately.

Here's a link about that experiment:

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How can anybody be against this? (cross post) [View all] Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 OP

Good question, Duckhunter935. calimary Jun 2016 #1

A university (I believe Yale was in the lead) did a study on young COLGATE4 Jun 2016 #2

So we should not even try? Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #3

Not what I said. But the only non-biased evidence so far COLGATE4 Jun 2016 #4

Best is to secure firearms Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #5

Absolutely. Unfortunately, it seems that many people don't do it. nt COLGATE4 Jun 2016 #6

Most do Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #7

And we need to start locking up people awoke_in_2003 Jun 2016 #9

I have no issues with that Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #10

Cool... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2016 #11

Indeed Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #12

Or any homicide. lastlib Jun 2016 #13

are you saying that self defense should be criminalized? gejohnston Jun 2016 #14

Inability/unwillingness to respond to #14 noted. NT pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #16

Yep, those police should all be locked up Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #17

I am also curious to know whether or not you seek to criminalize self defense. Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2016 #18

I would have to see the study before I would call it unbiased gejohnston Jun 2016 #8

When I was about 7 we visited my grandparents in Tennessee. SeattleVet Jun 2016 #15