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Re: An armed society...
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Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:37:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> I hope for a good solid citation -- one that you would accept if our stances
> were reversed, not just some Newsweek opinion. The NRA tells us that those are
> made up by evil liberal-agendad politicians like Moynihan.
Well, the NRA can hardly be taken as a bastion of objective reporting, so
it's difficult to accept its pronouncements at face value. One could point
out, for example, the NRA has perpetuated the lie that the 2nd Amendment
says anything at all about private gun ownership.
> Kleck and Kates (IIRC) suggest that it's merely a popular urban-rumor and
> that real data don't support the notion. (Unless of course, X less than one.)
I just got to work, so it'll be a little while before I can track down the
data. Stay tuned...
Dave!
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| (...) Well, the obvious source is by Kellerman and Reay: "Protection or Peril? An Analysis of Firearm Related Deaths in the Home." The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 314, no. 24, June 1986, pp. 1557-60. Gun apologists cite poor methodology (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I hope for a good solid citation -- one that you would accept if our stances were reversed, not just some Newsweek opinion. The NRA tells us that those are made up by evil liberal-agendad politicians like Moynihan. Kleck and Kates (IIRC) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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