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The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While America has the most strongly gun control advocating president in our history, pushing regulations driving gun makers and gun sellers out of business, support for more gun control has fallen by 15 percentage points in just five years, yet, it seems unlikely that Democrats will rethink their support for more regulations. The partisan divide on this issue has never been so large — 91% of Democrats and only 24% of Republicans support stricter laws.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The reason for the increase is the same as the increase in gun sales over the last two years, increased crime and concerns that police aren’t able to do their job, and the large numbers of inmates released from jails and prisons.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have dedicated years of my life to try to prevent school shootings.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They might be mad. They might feel like fools, honestly, it's not about them. It's about the 3,044 chairs that were missing a student because of gun violence, and those two guys are part of the problem and they are far away from being part of the solution.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They said the speech. Those are their words. They believe that, this is what these guys believe and what we did was call it out and put it out there so everyone knows.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They should make the entire video public so that people can see how they deceptively edited my talk, taking not even a minute of a 15 minute talk, i have dedicated years of my life to try to prevent school shootings.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Gun control advocates and Democrats will fight you tooth and nail, they want to go and say' We've stopped 3.5 million dangerous people.' I look at it as we've stopped 3.5 million law abiding citizens who wanted to get a gun.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
A poll by( the) Pew( Research Center) helps to explain why there has been such a large increase in concealed handgun permits among blacks and women. The poll shows a 25 percentage point increase in the proportion of blacks with a favorable view of gun ownership. This is the largest increase of any group.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The states that we have seen a slowing of permits have primarily been these Constitutional Carry states where a permit is no longer required, indeed some of those states have even seen a drop in the number of permits even though the number of people carrying in those places has undoubtedly gone up.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
What is so frustrating is that they don’t want to consider doing something that would work, like dealing with the fact that 98 percent of the mass public shootings keep on occurring in places where we ban general citizens from defending themselves, these killers keep saying that they pick places where people don’t have guns to protect themselves.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are all looking for magic bullets to stop crime, but it creates real problems, it prevents 20-year-old women who were stalked from having guns for protection.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You might have imagined that if people were shooting black suspects for some type of racial animus, you might imagine there would be a change before and after Ferguson.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
News stories tend to not mention the race of the officer when the officer is black, because most of the black officers we found we found by looking at department photos, not news stories, that was not true of white officers.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It raised total accidental deaths to 586 when they should have been 486, the lowest number on record despite the explosion in gun sales and concealed carry permits.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This case illustrates how extreme the District of Columbia’s opposition to concealed carry has been, here you have law enforcement who are offering to protect others for free, and the District has borne large legal costs to stop them from doing it.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It’s possible criminals just realized that it was easier to commit crimes on the subways than they had previously realized, you may simply have a copycat effect.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Even just a few people or even a couple who might be armed at a school can make a big difference in terms of whether or not terrorist types attack there, it is amazing how these killers talk explicitly about picking targets where they know victims cannot go and defend themselves. … where people are not armed and not able to stop them.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The government does not know how to even begin to deal with these problems, i understand what government wants to regulate this, but it is too late. Technology moves faster than government.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Just look at the illegal download of television shows and movies, millions of copies have been downloaded and the government has been unable to stop it. Why would the government be successful in stopping other information like these files from being downloaded?
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Of the 15 speakers at the workshop to train journalists, 13 are gun control advocates.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The FBI put out a clearly incorrect set of numbers on public shootings shortly before the November election last year.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The problem is the people who need guns the most and benefit the most from owning gun, poor individuals in high crime areas, are priced out of the market, who do they think they are disarming as a result of the law ? It is minorities in poor crime areas, not some wealthy guy who can afford to purchase the firearms at a higher cost.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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