Dan Gifford: "Can a Legitimate Case Be Made for Gun Control?"

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Can a Legitimate Case Be Made for Gun Control?
There is one factual truth in all this. It is that all the “gun control” remedies that are constitutional have been tried, and they all lead to the conclusion of the Carter Administration’s 1981 blue ribbon study on gun violence, commissioned in the expectation that it would prove guns cause crime and thereby provide a launch pad for prohibitive legislation. The conclusion? “It is commonly hypothesized that much criminal violence, especially homicide, occurs simply because firearms are readily at hand and, thus, that much homicide would not occur were firearms generally less available. There is no persuasive evidence that supports this view.”

American media and its intellectuals have almost totally ignored the Carter researchers’ facts in favor of their own “truths” even though their biases get undercut. For instance, a joint study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (where the famous Johnson Administration “results-oriented” 1968 study advising that handguns be banned was done) and the University of California at Davis Violence Prevention Research Program found that California’s much-touted mandatory background checks had no impact on gun deaths.

Said background check law was the most comprehensive in the United States. It required background checks for all firearm sales (and gun possession) to people convicted of misdemeanor violent crimes. All gun sales, including private transactions, had to go through a California-licensed Federal Firearms License (FFL) dealer.

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Fascinating that the "facts" and "truth" are already known and have been for decades. Yet we gun owners have to continually assert them and defend ourselves against infringement over and over again against the same misconstrued BS.

And over, and over, and over. Hey! Do you think it's possible they are just trying to wear US down? :sarcasm: :yes:

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Tyrants disarm the people they intend to oppress.

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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. The ancients, in the case at bar, laid the blame upon the gods: sometimes they were remote and surly, and sometimes they were kind. In the Middle Ages lesser powers took a hand in the matter, and so one reads of works of art inspired by Our Lady, by the Blessed Saints, by the souls of the departed, and even by the devil.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/17/solution/

Science is the only thing that keeps us from falling back into the Middle Ages and opinions and beliefs. There are a lot of research studies published that are never replicated including studies on the environment. Science has to be open to peer review and replicable or it's not science.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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We could say the same thing about knives and the UK. "Can a Legitimate Case Be Made for Knife Control?"

They controlled the guns so the knife became the weapon of choice. Violence will happen with the use of any tool at hand.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
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