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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 2

The ex-local rag:

In a report released this month, the (Violence Policy–ed.) center found that the shooting deaths of 67 people – including eight law enforcement officers – had been attributed to people holding legal gun permits. In 10 incidents, the shooters also took their own lives during a murder-suicide, and eight were mass shootings with three or more victims.

The report covers the two-year period from May 2007 through October 2009, not including the Nov. 5 killing of 13 people in Texas. In that most recent mass killing, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with emptying two handguns in a crowded Fort Hood troop-processing center.

All of the shooters – who were identified from news accounts – held legal permits to carry a concealed handgun. As a result, the Violence Policy Center contends that “contrary to the false promises of the gun lobby, the simple and deadly fact is that state concealed-handgun systems are arming cop-killers, mass shooters, and other murderers.”

A yahoo packing heat is still a yahoo–a more deadly yahoo.

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2 comments

  1. Karen

    November 30, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    A comment was made here, that if the customers of the coffee bar where the 4 cops were shot had been armed, the shooter wouldn’t have been able to get all of them.

    The response, which did include going to live in Philadelphia for a week, had the last part of the response unprintable.

     
  2. Frank

    November 30, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    If the customers in the coffee bar had been armed, they would have probably shot off their toes.

    Too many persons watching too many John Wayne movies.

    Furrfu.

     
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