Reply #73: A common claim among the trigger-happy....

[MrBenchley]

Take this racist imbecile from the NRA: "And commenting on the murder rate in Los Angeles, Cooper noted in 1991 that "the consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition."

http://www.vpc.org/studies/nrafamst.htm

Or THIS one: "Current NRA Research Coordinator Paul Blackman, echoing Cooper's views, has written that "studies of homicide victims—especially the increasing number of younger ones—suggest they are frequently criminals themselves and/or drug addicts or users. It is quite possible that their deaths, in terms of economic consequences to society, are net gains." "

http://www.vpc.org/press/0005nra.htm