theinvisibleheart
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Big Don, good post! +1
Good post! While not everything that Ms. Coulter writes about may be perfect or 100% correct, this one is right on the mark. Basically, universal CHL/CCW raises the cost of violent behavior and reduces it...when violent behavior does occur, it tend to be stopped by CHL/CCW holders.
It also shows that much of the blame for VA Tech massacre lies at the hands of those legislators and university officials who made the university "gun free" zone.
Best regards.
--John
Ann Coulter's "Sad-free zone" said:...
The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.
And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
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Good post! While not everything that Ms. Coulter writes about may be perfect or 100% correct, this one is right on the mark. Basically, universal CHL/CCW raises the cost of violent behavior and reduces it...when violent behavior does occur, it tend to be stopped by CHL/CCW holders.
It also shows that much of the blame for VA Tech massacre lies at the hands of those legislators and university officials who made the university "gun free" zone.
Best regards.
--John