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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: xer 21 on December 29, 2012, 05:46:14 PM

Title: There's a reason you're an economist, and not a lawmaker
Post by: xer 21 on December 29, 2012, 05:46:14 PM

]http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21568735-only-drastic-gun-control-could-make-big-difference-small-measures-can-help-bit-newtowns (http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21568735-only-drastic-gun-control-could-make-big-difference-small-measures-can-help-bit-newtowns)

choice quotes

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If you want to be safer, change the constitution

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If Americans want a society where schools do not, as the one in Newtown did, have to drill their children in emergency lock-down procedures, more drastic measures should be contemplated. Handgun bans, such as those that operated in Chicago and Washington, DC, before the Supreme Court struck them down, would be needed on a national scale.

 

right, and look how well their murder rate was going during those bans  ::)

Title: Re: There's a reason you're an economist, and not a lawmaker
Post by: ren on December 29, 2012, 06:15:45 PM

What commie, socialist said that?

Title: Re: There's a reason you're an economist, and not a lawmaker
Post by: xer 21 on December 29, 2012, 07:51:09 PM

Quote from: ren on December 29, 2012, 06:15:45 PM

What commie, socialist said that?

my bad, i used img tags instead of url tags.  it made the url disappear.  its fixed now.

Title: Re: There's a reason you're an economist, and not a lawmaker
Post by: ifight2protect on December 29, 2012, 08:19:55 PM

"Handgun bans, such as those that operated in Chicago" good thing that works...

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73835650/ (http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73835650/)

Title: Re: There's a reason you're an economist, and not a lawmaker
Post by: ren on December 29, 2012, 08:22:42 PM

Ahhh. So make illegal guns more illegal?

Title: Re: There's a reason you're an economist, and not a lawmaker
Post by: Bunker on December 29, 2012, 08:36:06 PM

Quote from: ifight2protect on December 29, 2012, 08:19:55 PM

"Handgun bans, such as those that operated in Chicago" good thing that works...

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73835650/ (http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-73835650/)

Key statement from Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy

Quote from: Garry McCarthy on December 29, 2012, 08:19:55 PM

McCarthy issued a statement declaring: “The city has seen its 500th homicide for 2012, a tragic number that is reflective of the gang violence and proliferation of illegal guns that have plagued some of our neighborhoods.”