How many can you count?
"a small audience"
"came from outside the Fayetteville community"
"self-proclaimed supporters of the Second Amendment"
ad nauseum
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Stronger gun control laws not needed, debate audience says
By MAYLON T. RICE, Staff Writer
By a 2-1 margin, a small audience at the University of Arkansas Thursday night determined additional gun control laws are not needed.
The vote was taken following an hour-long debate sponsored by University Programs and the Arkansas Union Society. The debate drew some 50 people to the Union ballroom.
The debate’s outside speakers, discussing the merits of the national political issue, came from outside the Fayetteville community. The audience was evenly divided between UA students and self-proclaimed supporters of the Second Amendment and the National Rifle Association within Fayetteville and Northwest Arkansas.
Linda Spence, a registered nurse from Kansas City, Mo., and a children’s trauma specialist, squared off against Jeff Cantwell of Little Rock, a life member of the National Rifle Association and active member of the Arkansas Rifle and Pistol Association.
Spence, last year helped defeat a concealed weapons statute in the state of Missouri, immediately took the affirmative side, calling for more, stronger, gun control laws with increased emphasis on safety and responsibility of gun owners.
“This is a universal debate, upon which everyone has an opinion,” Spence began. “But safety and responsibility of the gun owner are paramount as we need stronger gun laws in this country.”
“American children have paid the price for the lack of gun safety laws, as tragic accidents in the home involving guns will soon overtake automobile accidents as the No. 1 killer of young children,” she said.
Arguing the defensive position, Cantwell said mandated trigger locks were not the answer. Instead, he said, parents should better train their children on the dangers of guns.
“Trigger locks are not foolproof,” Cantwell said. “Any mechanical device can fail and by the time you get a trigger lock off you can be dead.”
Cantwell asked why Spence would single out gun owners for irresponsible actions in their homes, when many homeowners each year leave their medications out, unattended — causing thousands of children to be accidentally poisoned.
She refuted Cantwell’s assertion about accidental poisoning by pointing out the mandate and regulated childproof caps on all prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
Spence countered that statistics show that those killed in American homes were more likely to be shot by someone they knew, than by a stranger.
Spence said guns are the only devices allowed in homes which are not under Consumer Safety Protection regulations.
“If you have a crib, a toy or something in your home which proves to be dangerous to children, it can be recalled and someone who made that item can be responsible for the harm it causes — everything that is, except a gun,” she said. “Gun owners need to be responsible for the harm they cause — just like automobile owners involved in an accident — except have you ever heard of someone having insurance on the harm a gun caused in the home.”
Cantwell said that guns in the home do not always mean bloodshed. He said out of 270 million Americans, less than 110 children died from gun accidents in the home.
“In Switzerland, if the number of guns in the hands of citizens is any indication — that nation should be awash in blood,” Cantwell said. “With over 600,000 guns in the hands of citizens it has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.”
Spence said while Arkansas has few gun control laws of its own, the state Legislature failed to provide responsibility in gun safety issues for the state’s children and citizens from model laws enacted by other states.
She said the presence of a gun often causes a “weapons effect” on small children — triggering aggressive and often irresponsible behavior. Cantwell refuted such a charge, saying that the “weapons effect” can have an exactly opposite viewpoint too.
“Two and a half million times a year, the very presence of a gun stops crime in this country,” Cantwell said. “More than 50 percent of all personal crimes take place without a weapon, yet, if a confrontation takes place and the person being confronted pulls a gun — only 17 percent of those personal crimes continue.”
I pointed out these "descrepancies" to the editor
editor@nwarktimes.com
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
"a small audience"
"came from outside the Fayetteville community"
"self-proclaimed supporters of the Second Amendment"
ad nauseum
http://www.recordtimes.com/times/news/20news/20news.html
Stronger gun control laws not needed, debate audience says
By MAYLON T. RICE, Staff Writer
By a 2-1 margin, a small audience at the University of Arkansas Thursday night determined additional gun control laws are not needed.
The vote was taken following an hour-long debate sponsored by University Programs and the Arkansas Union Society. The debate drew some 50 people to the Union ballroom.
The debate’s outside speakers, discussing the merits of the national political issue, came from outside the Fayetteville community. The audience was evenly divided between UA students and self-proclaimed supporters of the Second Amendment and the National Rifle Association within Fayetteville and Northwest Arkansas.
Linda Spence, a registered nurse from Kansas City, Mo., and a children’s trauma specialist, squared off against Jeff Cantwell of Little Rock, a life member of the National Rifle Association and active member of the Arkansas Rifle and Pistol Association.
Spence, last year helped defeat a concealed weapons statute in the state of Missouri, immediately took the affirmative side, calling for more, stronger, gun control laws with increased emphasis on safety and responsibility of gun owners.
“This is a universal debate, upon which everyone has an opinion,” Spence began. “But safety and responsibility of the gun owner are paramount as we need stronger gun laws in this country.”
“American children have paid the price for the lack of gun safety laws, as tragic accidents in the home involving guns will soon overtake automobile accidents as the No. 1 killer of young children,” she said.
Arguing the defensive position, Cantwell said mandated trigger locks were not the answer. Instead, he said, parents should better train their children on the dangers of guns.
“Trigger locks are not foolproof,” Cantwell said. “Any mechanical device can fail and by the time you get a trigger lock off you can be dead.”
Cantwell asked why Spence would single out gun owners for irresponsible actions in their homes, when many homeowners each year leave their medications out, unattended — causing thousands of children to be accidentally poisoned.
She refuted Cantwell’s assertion about accidental poisoning by pointing out the mandate and regulated childproof caps on all prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
Spence countered that statistics show that those killed in American homes were more likely to be shot by someone they knew, than by a stranger.
Spence said guns are the only devices allowed in homes which are not under Consumer Safety Protection regulations.
“If you have a crib, a toy or something in your home which proves to be dangerous to children, it can be recalled and someone who made that item can be responsible for the harm it causes — everything that is, except a gun,” she said. “Gun owners need to be responsible for the harm they cause — just like automobile owners involved in an accident — except have you ever heard of someone having insurance on the harm a gun caused in the home.”
Cantwell said that guns in the home do not always mean bloodshed. He said out of 270 million Americans, less than 110 children died from gun accidents in the home.
“In Switzerland, if the number of guns in the hands of citizens is any indication — that nation should be awash in blood,” Cantwell said. “With over 600,000 guns in the hands of citizens it has one of the lowest crime rates in the world.”
Spence said while Arkansas has few gun control laws of its own, the state Legislature failed to provide responsibility in gun safety issues for the state’s children and citizens from model laws enacted by other states.
She said the presence of a gun often causes a “weapons effect” on small children — triggering aggressive and often irresponsible behavior. Cantwell refuted such a charge, saying that the “weapons effect” can have an exactly opposite viewpoint too.
“Two and a half million times a year, the very presence of a gun stops crime in this country,” Cantwell said. “More than 50 percent of all personal crimes take place without a weapon, yet, if a confrontation takes place and the person being confronted pulls a gun — only 17 percent of those personal crimes continue.”
I pointed out these "descrepancies" to the editor
editor@nwarktimes.com
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.