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Are Guns the Problem?

topperj2 Wrote: Jan 16, 2013 11:13 AM

Dr. Williams is right, as usual. But he's spitting into the wind. We have lost the battle over our culture. 100 years of chipping away have eroded our once stable nation. We are not unlike the last Roman empire, ready for a big fall. It's just a matter of time, unless an asteroid hits the planet head on and ends it for all of us. Then, a new life form can start over again. I doubt it will be the same, since there will be none so wise as the Founding Fathers to guide those new beings in establishing the new exceptional nation.

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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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