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Are Guns the Problem?

Doug5049 Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 12:41 PM

It's because they realize that they have been used by politicians and weapons manufacturers in wars the US had no business being in. It torments a normal person's conscience when he realizes that he was nothing more than a hit man for sociopaths.

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Are Guns the Problem?

When I attended primary and secondary school -- during the 1940s and '50s -- one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why? It surely wasn't because of strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm advertisements. People just sent in their money, and a firearm was shipped.

Dr. John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime," reports that until the 1960s, some New York City public high schools had shooting clubs where students competed in citywide shooting contests for university scholarships. They carried their rifles to school on...

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