Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Silencing the Guns [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)Who's that big snarky pro-gunner? Who's playing with the big kids now? It's pneutin! Yes you are!
You'll notice that I did mention the Larry Bell article. And you responded to me. If you choose to ignore my main point and go off on a tangent, that's your reading comprehension issue not mine. What I was actually talking about was the stark contrast between, on one hand, the pro-gunners' lapping up complete falsehoods and lies in the two OPs which posted the Larry Bell article from Forbes, and on the other hand quibbling about technicalities and the definition of a "loophole" right here. It gives insight into both the general cluelessness and also the intellectual dishonesty of the pro-gunner ideology.
Care to comment on that? Or is it all a bit too abstract for you.
As far as DGUs, frankly, I don't really feel at this moment like having that debate again with yet another pro-gunner who gets his/her information exclusively from gun blogs and isn't even aware of the literature not supporting the pro-gun point of view. For example, the Hemenway study that actually presented self-reported DGUs to a panel of judges and a panel of criminology students to determine if they were actually "defensive", and concluded that, as I pointed out, many (most) self-claimed DGUS are not actually socially beneficial acts of self defense. Never heard of that one, huh? Gee, I'm shocked. I guess that's why you must have thought that it was just me asserting my subjective bias...
LOL. Yet another clueless pro-gunner. Well, if you are actually interested in reading some of the studies that don't support your ideological bias, and educate yourself on this topic you can start here.