[quote=Blogstar]I don’t need to do that to know that using them to fight the government is rediculous. The idea of using any guns to fight OUR government IN THIS ERA is nuts…
When our great constitution was written a gun was what? Nothing like weapons of today. That matters.[/quote]
Russ: I’m not advocating ownership of assault rifles to fight the federal government. I was simply using actual statistics as a counterpoint to the hand-wringing lamentations regarding ownership of weapons that inarguably are NOT responsible for a statistically significant percentage of people in a given year and thus banning such weapons would have a negligible effect, at best.
This is borne out by FBI and DOJ studies on the Clinton-era ban on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, which showed the ineffectiveness of the ban. Connecticut has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. So does Chicago. There were 192 shootings in Chicago last week alone.
This debate, as it were, is devoid of facts and evidence and driven by emotionality. There have been some excellent studies that also show that guns are not the leading weapon in violent deaths. Grant Duwe at Minnesota’s Department of Corrections did one such study and it’s well worth a read if you want to use real facts and evidence.
