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Monday, May 05, 2008
Mike Adams :: Townhall.com Columnist
Caution! You Are About To Enter A Gun Free Zone
by Mike Adams
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2. Send a post card to DrAdams.org, P.O. Box 319, Wrightsville Beach, NC, 28480. Just note that you have posted your sign and leave a return address so I can mail you a crime victimization survey this time next year.

Next, I want all of those gun owners who say that having a gun in one’s home does, in fact, deter burglary to do the following:

1. Post a sign on your front door saying “Caution: You Are About to Enter an Armed Household.”

2. Send a post card to DrAdams.org, P.O. Box 319, Wrightsville Beach, NC, 28480. Just note that you have posted your sign and leave a return address so I can mail you a crime victimization survey this time next year.

There are also professors who continue to assert that actually carrying a weapon with a valid permit does not deter violent crime. For those, it will not be necessary to conduct a crime victimization study. There are already 15 refereed studies indicating that concealed carry permits reduce violent crime. While some published studies are inconclusive, none draw the conclusion that the permits increase violence.

Nonetheless, some leftist professors continue to use scare tactics by ignoring the evidence and claiming that concealed carry permits do increase violence. Such assertions are immoral because they are dishonest.

Such assertions are also careless because even those without guns are safer living in areas that allow citizens to carry concealed. This is because violent criminals do not know who has a gun and who does not. But, today, I plan to change all that by asking these leftists professors to write to DrAdams.org to re-assert their opposition to concealed carry laws.

After they send a post card to the address supplied above, I’ll send them a free t-shirt saying “Caution: I’m an Un-Armed Citizen.” If they get into trouble wearing it, they can always negotiate their way out of the situation.

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Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus.
 
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On self-defense
Regarding the 20 or 25 foot rule, one might be surprised at how far an attacker with a knife can move in one second. The apeed record -- and it was an average speed, not a sprint -- that I recall was 21.7 mph by Jesse Owens; that translates to almost 32 feet per second and short sprints can exceed that. If you don't know that before pulling the trigger the judge won't allow the jury to know it so now we all know.

For Mom of 4: My Makarov is very reliable and inexpensive but the grip angle -- similar to the P.38 -- may take some getting used to. Also, if you prefer, the Glock 30 (if I remember the model correctly) in .45 ACP bears trying out. I didn't see Kahr mentioned but that looks like a good one also.

Deterrence works
There is a pawn shop near my house with a large sign over the entrance that says "$10,000 reward for killing anyone in the act of robbing this store".

I asked the owner about it and he told me when he first opened the store he got robbed at least two or three times a year. In the six months before he put the sign up was robbed seven times.

Since he put the sign up he has been threatened by law enforcement with all kinds of legal trouble if a robber is killed. But it hasn't been a problem because in the over ten years since he put up the sign no one has robbed his store.
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