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Dean Burnett attempted to write an objective, neutral article on the issue of gun ownership and has no doubt failed spectacularly.
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back, some time ago, my great great.....grandfather went out of the cave at night, and a sabertooth tiger ate him. So all the people around found sharp sticks and rocks to carry when they went outside at night from then on. The ones with the sharp sticks and rocks survived, and the stupid ones without got eaten. So for a long time, the smart ones with protection lasted longer, and bred more.
Fast forward to recent times, and the saber tooth tigers are gone, and you can go out at night without being eaten. So the dumb ones deny their past and forget that there are other nasty critters out there that you might need weapons to protect yourself from.
Is '**** you'', or 'because I ****ing can' a scientific answer?
Why do they love focusing on "Why do people need so many guns?" The author attempted to explore that, but why even go into it? People like to collect things. People collect old ass stamps, coins, keychains, spoons, hand bells, plates with pictures of dogs on them, sports cards, sports cars, hats, sneakers, cast iron skillets, shaving equipment, music, you name it. Why does it matter how many guns a person has? And why does it matter why they have so many?
I like collecting things. I like the subtleties of different designs. I like new toys and I appreciate something that is better suited to a certain application than other things I own. I have many screwdrivers because sometimes I need more torque, sometimes screws are in tight spaces, sometimes screws are big, sometimes small, you get the point.
If sawed off shotguns weren't no-nos I'd have one. Why? A. Because this is still America and I don't have to answer your stupid ass questions. B. Because sometimes spiders get into tight places.
And yeah, nice trigger discipline in the photo.
Understanding why people want to own a gun should be essential to better regulate them, because if you just rely on condemnation and blanket criticism of gun owners, they aren’t going to simply agree and hand over their weapons. They’re more likely todouble down and become even more adamant that they’re in the right , making gun control ever more difficult.
Dean Burnett is a doctor of neuroscience, but moonlights as a comedy writer and stand-up comedian. He tutors and lectures at Cardiff University. Dean is now represented by Greene & Heaton. Enquiries can be sent to Chris Wellbelove
In a survey of criminals(read that as FELONS IN PRISON), Professors James D. Wright and Peter Rossi of the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts conducted a study in 1982 and 1983 paid for by the U.S. Department of Justice. (Professor Rossi was a former President of the American Sociological Association.) The researchers interviewed 1,874 imprisoned felons in ten states.
88% of the criminals surveyed by Wright and Rossi agreed with the statement that, “A criminal who wants a handgun is going to get one.”(read this to mean that these felons are not obeying the gun laws and the Legislature cannot figure this out)
Wright and Rossi reported that:
81% of interviewees agreed that a “smart criminal” will try to determine if a potential victim is armed.
74% indicated that burglars avoided occupied dwellings, because of fear of being shot.
57% said that most criminals feared armed citizens more than the police.
40% of the felons said that they had been deterred from committing a particular crime, because they believed that the potential victim was armed.
57% of the felons who had used guns themselves said that they had encountered potential victims who were armed.
34% of the criminal respondents said that they had been scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed citizen.
Based on this government-funded research by Wright and Rossi, it would appear to a reasonable and prudent man that armed citizens do have a deterrent effect on crime.