Mike
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Very clear thinking on what many or most think is a "liberal" news source, whatever "liberal" means these days
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http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/08/are_guns_at_protests_really_da.php
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I think carrying guns to protests is entirely counterproductive. . . . But the hysteria about them has been even more ludicrous. Numerous people claim to believe that this makes it likely, even certain, that someone will shoot at the president. This is very silly, because the president is not anywhere most of the gun-toting protesters, who have showed up at all sorts of events. It is, I suppose, more plausible to believe that they might take a shot at someone else. But not very plausible: the rate of crime associated with legal gun possession or carrying seems to be very low. Guns, it turn out, do not turn ordinary people into murderers. They make murderers more effective.
So perhaps unsurprisingly, when offered the opportunity to put some money down on the proposition that one of these firearms is soon going to be discharged at someone, they all decline.
Very clear thinking on what many or most think is a "liberal" news source, whatever "liberal" means these days
--
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/08/are_guns_at_protests_really_da.php
SNIP
I think carrying guns to protests is entirely counterproductive. . . . But the hysteria about them has been even more ludicrous. Numerous people claim to believe that this makes it likely, even certain, that someone will shoot at the president. This is very silly, because the president is not anywhere most of the gun-toting protesters, who have showed up at all sorts of events. It is, I suppose, more plausible to believe that they might take a shot at someone else. But not very plausible: the rate of crime associated with legal gun possession or carrying seems to be very low. Guns, it turn out, do not turn ordinary people into murderers. They make murderers more effective.
So perhaps unsurprisingly, when offered the opportunity to put some money down on the proposition that one of these firearms is soon going to be discharged at someone, they all decline.