An excellent article about the recent school shooting and the inevitable call for gun confiscation...
Excerpts from the article.... What was the problem? Leftists brace yourself: It was not a gun problem, but a culture problem. Amazingly, Barnes inadvertently touched on this problem, saying, "Our leaders are preaching about the culture of life. They should spend the same amount of energy taking steps to stop our nation's culture of death." Of course, Barnes and his ilk think the culture of death begins and ends with guns. Their silence on the real cultural problems is deafening. Yale researcher John Lott addressed the relationship between gun possession and crime, and concluded his research with the title of his 1998 book, "More Guns, Less Crime." Notably, Lott's research also determined this corollary to be fact: The countries that ban guns have the highest homicide rates. And why is this true? Intended victims are much easier to murder when their government has already disarmed them through gun control laws. In his Commonplace Book, Thomas Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, "On Crimes and Punishment": "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. ... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Again, no less true today than it has been throughout history. Complete article.... http://tinyurl.com/5ncjk http://makeashorterlink.com/?C4DB261DA http://www.townhall.com/columnists/markalexander/ma20050404.shtml _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
