http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2009/07/20/gun-permit-holders-have-killed-seven-cops-44-others-in-only-the-past-two-years Comments On: Gun Permit Holders Have Killed Seven Cops, 44 Others in Only the Past Two Years by Jeff Woods en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by IC]]> Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:42:57 -0600 Nashville Scene Hey, I bet if we passed a bunch of laws that made it illegal to kill people, this wouldn't happen!
I'm not a fan of misleading facts and figures, and if the pro-2nd Amendment side has done this, shame on them.
Regardless, that does NOT change the fact that anti-gun legislation does nothing but harm the innocent. If someone has it in them to shoot another person, they are going to do in spite of the law.
When will people understand the very simple concept that passing more laws won't stop criminal activity.
Posted by Carol]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:17:46 -0600 Nashville Scene I've lived in Nashville,TN for 7 years and in that time period me or an immediate member of my family/friends has been in or near a situation that may have required use of a gun for self defense.
*My mother had her car almost jacked IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
Posted by Bob]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:47:22 -0500 Nashville Scene *Guns are 91.35% more likely to kill people when the shooter is drunk and in a park
*Your aim with a pistols goes down 52.16% after 6 cocktails or 8 beers.
*74.3% of people don't like to be shot or don't like to be near guns for any reason
*Having gun restrictions saved over and not letting drunk people take pistols to parks saved over 23,432,000,000 lives in 2008 alone.
*Men with carry permits tend to have small willy's and women with carry permits tend to be married to men with small willy's
*Most citizens with no real gun training other than the carry permit turn into Dirty Harry and are cool as ice when they need to squeeze off a round in a crowded bar to stop some crazed Terrorist that has busted into the the local Applebee's for some Jihad and Japaleno Poppers!
Posted by Chrissy Hopson]]> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:08:33 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Spunk Nutley]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:24:16 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by The OG Ben]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:22:30 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by umpfreeze]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:19:43 -0500 Nashville Scene * Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.
Posted by Chris Hopson]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:36:57 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Sheila Benson]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:34:55 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Chris Hopson]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:29:43 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Chris Hopson]]> Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:27:05 -0500 Nashville Scene chances are very tiny indeed. I wonder, do you wear a safety belt?
Posted by Brandon]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:39:50 -0500 Nashville Scene Gun homicides in the USA run about 18.000 per year (excludes suicides)
Using the conservative number of 3.000.000 permit holders, this particular 1% of the population is causing 0.14% of the homicides.
Posted by fidaho]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:55:00 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Anonymous]]> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:36:30 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by John R. Lott, Jr.]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:26:00 -0500 Nashville Scene I'd also ask why VPC has to resort to quoting from immaterial sourcing written 13 years ago that is patently obsolete.
This was a shoddy report by VPC, and shoddy journalism to parrot such claims.
Posted by Bob Owens]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:23:00 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by G.D.]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:14:40 -0500 Nashville Scene Of course, it will be a tiny, tiny number, but... etc."
Notice how these anti-gun nuts try to turn the priciples of individual rights and freedoms upside down.
Thus people are not supposed to be free to exercise their rights unless they can come up with a reason that's acceptable to them.
That's not the way it works. The burden of proof is on them to prove there is a compelling reason why the right should be restricted.
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:38:21 -0500 Nashville Scene Hey? Any of youse guys been shot???
Posted by charleston heston]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:45:37 -0500 Nashville Scene Then again, I ask those people if they trust anything written by the Violence Policy Center? That group is almost wholly funded ($3,550,000 during the past 6 years) by the wealthy urban social engineers at Chicago's Joyce Foundation.
Posted by Carl in Chicago]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:40:56 -0500 Nashville Scene "What crimes have permit holders prevented? You guys should make a list and put out a report on it.
Posted by Carl in Chicago]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:33:11 -0500 Nashville Scene These gun nuts offer nothing except logical fallacies - strawman arguments, appeals to pity or fear, ad hominem.
Tell us, gun nuts:
How many shootings have happened in Tennessee restaurants that serve alcohol?
How many restaurants in Tennessee serve alcohol?
If you do the math, you'll see the chances of being shot in one of these establishments is almost zero . . .
But you paranoid whackos won't admit that, will you?
Posted by The OG Ben]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:04:58 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Tai Nguyen]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:23:19 -0500 Nashville Scene It seems that a short list would allow any doubters to use the internet to VARIFY THIS SUPPOSED INFO TO BE ACTUAL FACTS!!!
INstead the author leaves us to QUESTION THE INFO. as its SOURCES HAVE A LONG HISTORY OF LIEING!!!!!
The article mentions "a new study", yet NEVER GIVES THE NAME OR AUTHORS OF THE STUDY!
Posted by CharlesP]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:14:12 -0500 Nashville Scene it would be a lot more significant if you or your loved on were the one shot by one of you gun fanatics in a restaurant.
Of course, it might also mean that the guns-in-everywhere movement was a solution looking for a problem.
Posted by Andy Axel]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:52:47 -0500 Nashville Scene