DBabsJr
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Paula Zahn will be debating this on her show tonight at 8PM ET. I don't know...between Dobbs and Cafferty, CNN doesn't seem too bad lately on firearms.
Dr. Nash,
I just watched your interview on CNN about the concealed handgun laws of the University of Utah. I wanted to give you a few facts in case you are ever interviewed again. Utah does not keep statistics on conviction rates of concealed handgun holders, however Texas does so I will use those.
In Texas for the year 2005 there were five times more convictions of citizens that did NOT have a concealed handgun license than those who did. What this means for you is that you are five times LESS likely to be attacked by a person with a concealed handgun permit than by someone that does not have one. Keep that in mind when you are speaking to the media.
Get your facts straight, more guns in the hands of honest, proven law abiding citizens DOES in FACT keep people safe.
See the Texas Department of Public Safety in order to do your own research, which I suggest you do before you spread lies.
Feel free to contact me,
Chad Oubre
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Could allowing students to pack heat have prevented the Va Tech massacre?
Also, note how the question is never phrased so that it also includes members of the faculty carrying firearms.
These debates and polls are almost always framed within the premise that CCW has to completely eliminate the threat in order to be useful. Nobody ever asks, "Could allowing students to carry firearms have reduced the scope of the VT massacre, or brought it to a quicker end?"
Also, note how the question is never phrased so that it also includes members of the faculty carrying firearms. This omission helps reinforce the idea that only (presumably young, irresponsible) people will be armed on campus.
I don't buy the argument that any person bent on mass murder would consider whether or not the people were armed. That would make his/her choice a rational one, which it is not. Rather I think that if someone in that class room returned fire (even without hitting Cho) that he would have run away. The number would not be 33, it might be 2 or 4 instead
even though these people are committing irrational acts, they're complete thought process is not irrational. It's clear Cho wanted to make a statement and that's why he planned out this whole thing with the videos and pictures and everything.
He would have never gone on a rampage at a police station or shooting range as he'd be quickly stopped without making his statement.
Did not a crazy person attack a police station in Virginia?