Shock!! Horror!!: New Yorker Author Wants Handguns Banned

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I was amazed to read that Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker would like ban handguns.

Take a minute to get your breath back.

Here's an excerpt:


"Semi-automatic Glocks and Walthers, Cho’s weapons, are for killing people. They are not made for hunting, and it’s not easy to protect yourself with them. (If having a loaded semi-automatic on hand kept you safe, cops would not be shot as often as they are.)

Rural America is hunting country, and hunters need rifles and shotguns—with proper licensing, we’ll live with the risk. There is no reason that any private citizen in a democracy should own a handgun."

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/04/30/070430taco_talk_gopnik

Im thinking of writing a stern letter in response.
 
(If having a loaded semi-automatic on hand kept you safe, cops would not be shot as often as they are.)
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LMAO! 1, Cops are NOT shot "Often" when you take into account the type of work they do.... you know... arresting CRIMINALS!!!
2, Can you imagine how "often" cops WOULD get shot if they did NOT have handguns.

This "author" (an OVER-statement) is a clown.
 
If anyone has an email address of the author I'd write him.

In 2005 the FBI's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report said that 50 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty by a firearm in 2005. In the non lethal assaults of 2005, officers were assaulted with firearms 3.7% of the time. The Department of Justice reports that the police justifiably kill about 400 felons a years. This of course doesn't count the number of times that display of their weapon keeps it from needing to be used. It doesn't sound like police are shot that often and it sounds like they use them for effective self defense. I question if Mr. Gopnik's assertation is based on real world data or if he's just day dreaming.
 
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