Today, Dan Rather on "CBS Evening News" spoke about the Luby's incident and gave the perspective from Suzanne Hubb (sp?) who said she could have stopped the incident with her gun, which was in her car according to law. They gave her plenty of time to talk, with intemittent blips of counterargument by an anti-gunner.
She said that "law abiding people are going to be law abiding people no matter if they have one gun or 60". She thinks that "all people that can vote" should be able to "keep and carry".
"I have a serious problems with that" said The President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the head of the St. Peters Missouri Police, Ronald Newbower. He countered her and says that "guns should stay in the home". Newbower says that "possession of a gun absolutely does NOT make our society safer" and "putting more guns on the street is definitly NOT the answer" (obviously Mr Newbower has never heard of John Lott Jr.'s research, listed in his book "More Guns, Less Crime" which completely disproves that statement).
Mr. Newbower also said that "35,000 people each year die from firearms...we need to do something about this health crisis". Sounds like the usual red herring/straw man crap. What does 35,000 gun deaths a year have to do with people carrying guns? Letting people carry guns will not have any effect on the statistic he is (exaggerating) talking about. He is referring to suicides, Police shootings, legal shootings, and bad guys shooting each other and innocents. What does that number have to do with letting good people carry guns? News flash: bad guys carry guns anyway!
Mrs. Hubb countered that "criminals and bad guys are always going to be criminals and bad guys and I want to be able to protect mself...it all seems so black and white to me".
Dan Rather asked her if she thought that her having a gun at that time (in Luby's) would have saved her parents. She says "Yes. One thing that no one can argue with, is that it certainly would have changed the odds, wouldn't it?" (emphasis hers)
Dan Rather made a major misquote though and stated that "over 83,000 times a year a gun is used to stop a crime". That number is waaay off, and I suspect that is a number quoted from the CDC or something that probably only accounts for the number of people who SHOOT someone to stop a crime, not taking into account the millions of people that just display a gun to stop a crime each year.
Dan Rather says that on Monday he will address the Second Amendment. So far, the last couple news pieces I seen this week by Dan Rather have been a decent attempt at being pro-gun. But, he says that on Monday his story will be "A reality check on the Second Amendment". THAT should be interesting, and probably infuriating.
thaddeus
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"Don't confuse me with the facts, I already have my mind made up!" - gungrabber X
She said that "law abiding people are going to be law abiding people no matter if they have one gun or 60". She thinks that "all people that can vote" should be able to "keep and carry".
"I have a serious problems with that" said The President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the head of the St. Peters Missouri Police, Ronald Newbower. He countered her and says that "guns should stay in the home". Newbower says that "possession of a gun absolutely does NOT make our society safer" and "putting more guns on the street is definitly NOT the answer" (obviously Mr Newbower has never heard of John Lott Jr.'s research, listed in his book "More Guns, Less Crime" which completely disproves that statement).
Mr. Newbower also said that "35,000 people each year die from firearms...we need to do something about this health crisis". Sounds like the usual red herring/straw man crap. What does 35,000 gun deaths a year have to do with people carrying guns? Letting people carry guns will not have any effect on the statistic he is (exaggerating) talking about. He is referring to suicides, Police shootings, legal shootings, and bad guys shooting each other and innocents. What does that number have to do with letting good people carry guns? News flash: bad guys carry guns anyway!
Mrs. Hubb countered that "criminals and bad guys are always going to be criminals and bad guys and I want to be able to protect mself...it all seems so black and white to me".
Dan Rather asked her if she thought that her having a gun at that time (in Luby's) would have saved her parents. She says "Yes. One thing that no one can argue with, is that it certainly would have changed the odds, wouldn't it?" (emphasis hers)
Dan Rather made a major misquote though and stated that "over 83,000 times a year a gun is used to stop a crime". That number is waaay off, and I suspect that is a number quoted from the CDC or something that probably only accounts for the number of people who SHOOT someone to stop a crime, not taking into account the millions of people that just display a gun to stop a crime each year.
Dan Rather says that on Monday he will address the Second Amendment. So far, the last couple news pieces I seen this week by Dan Rather have been a decent attempt at being pro-gun. But, he says that on Monday his story will be "A reality check on the Second Amendment". THAT should be interesting, and probably infuriating.
thaddeus
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"Don't confuse me with the facts, I already have my mind made up!" - gungrabber X