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Clarifying America's Gun Culture

mastergunny Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 2:16 PM

Typical liberal mindset. The ranking is meaningless (besides being inaccurate) because it tries to correlate two dissimiliar realities. We can never know how many would-be murdrers controlled their passions and did not commit murder nor can we accurately determine what might have happened if everyone was armed. One thing is for sure, when people stop respecting the law then a sane populace will enact measures so that criminals fear it. We have neither in this country thus criminals are willing to play the odds.

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Clarifying America's Gun Culture

Since NBC sportscaster Bob Costas went on his halftime anti-gun rant on Sunday using words written by Fox Sports Columnist Jason Whitlock, we’ve heard a lot from the media and from uniformed commentators about America’s “gun culture.” The fact is, America actually has two gun cultures and it is important to distinguish them from one another.

The first gun culture is deeply seated in American history and her founding. Founding Fathers like George Washington understood that an armed citizenry would prevent government tyranny, which is why we have the Second Amendment. This is a concept rapper...

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