Boston Globe: The nation of the armed

Why do their hands always "tremble?" WTF is with that, anyway? Whose hands "tremble" when they pick up an inanimate object? Did they tremble when she first picked up a set of car keys?

Because people would stop reading if it started out with, "I wet myself as I tried to pick up the revolver."

Well, except for some people here, who would find that strangely exciting. [rofl]
 
Lewis Dabney responds

It must have been a "positive" gun article. Perrenial self-defense hater and BGlobe letter to the editor writer Lewis S. Dabney is enraged.

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Armed nation
by Lewis S. Dabney, Chestnut Hil, May 24, 2009

SOMEONE HAS to respond to the May 18 op-ed by Emerson College teacher Margot Livesey, mainly on the grounds that an instructor of young, impressionable people could even suggest that buying a gun for self-defense is a good idea. In the 1990s, professional research by the Harvard School of Public Health, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that a gun in the home triples the likelihood of homicide, and is 43 times more likely to kill a friend or a relative than an intruder.

That we have more than 280 million guns in this country and continue to be cursed by an annual count of 34,000 fatalities from gunfire is ample proof that the more guns there are in circulation, the more likely is lethal crime.

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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2009/05/24/armed_nation/
 
In the 1990s, professional research by the Harvard School of Public Health, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that a gun in the home triples the likelihood of homicide, and is 43 times more likely to kill a friend or a relative than an intruder.

bingo!
I'm tired of waiting for a damn intruder. I'm going to go shoot my dad. Later.
 
It must have been a "positive" gun article. Perrenial self-defense hater and BGlobe letter to the editor writer Lewis S. Dabney is enraged.

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Armed nation
by Lewis S. Dabney, Chestnut Hil, May 24, 2009

SOMEONE HAS to respond to the May 18 op-ed by Emerson College teacher Margot Livesey, mainly on the grounds that an instructor of young, impressionable people could even suggest that buying a gun for self-defense is a good idea. In the 1990s, professional research by the Harvard School of Public Health, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that a gun in the home triples the likelihood of homicide, and is 43 times more likely to kill a friend or a relative than an intruder.

That we have more than 280 million guns in this country and continue to be cursed by an annual count of 34,000 fatalities from gunfire is ample proof that the more guns there are in circulation, the more likely is lethal crime.

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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2009/05/24/armed_nation/
The oft-quoted "43 times" is from the Kellerman Kings County study, which has been widely discredited.

More info on Kellermann here:

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kellerman-schaffer.html

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/papers-shade/StatisticalMisgivingsandLies.PDF

http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/kellerman-buckner.html
 
The oft-quoted "43 times" is from the Kellerman Kings County study, which has been widely discredited
And Dabney knows it too.
But he also knows that the BGlobe will print his letters with his intentional errors. Their object is to mis-lead the public by spreading this false talking point.

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Is what frosts me, when dumbasses chime in and say stupid shit like "Look at England", Yeah lets look at England, where the knife involved crimes have increased over 60% in the last 3 years.... Have you ever noticed, that the states with the least gun laws, usually have less violent crimes... Also if someone really wants to kill themselves, they'll use what means necessary to do it... Besides more kids die every year by Drowning than they do with a "gun related incident".... Maybe We should ban pools, lakes and oceans....
 
Well, I responded.

This liberal rag is finished. I can't wait until the New York times scuttles this "paper". I'll have to stock up though. Boston Globe papers make great kitty litter liners!
 
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