Thursday, December 20, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Disastrous Gun Law Sparked School Shootings

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Nation

Disastrous Gun Law Sparked School Shootings: GunWatch
“Gun Owners, Segregationists, and Jim Sleeper”: Protein Wisdom
Five-Point Action Plan to Reduce Violence by the Mentally Ill: NRO

‘Before banning our guns, please recover the ones you sent to Mexico’: CFP
The New Racial Derangement Syndrome: Hanson
Where do we go from here?: Ace

We Know How To Stop School Shootings: Coulter
Crazy GOP Senator Proposes Putting National Guard In Schools: RWN
Missouri Police Chief Recommends Arming School Personnel: GunWatch

Economy

Foreigners Now Own $5.48 Trillion Of US Debt: S&L
Beware! Regulations Incoming!: Foundry
ATR Statement on "Plan B" Tax Plan: ATR

Boehner's Plan B Exposes Obama's Grade-A Tax Lie: IBD
Here’s how to get $2 trillion in new tax revenue without raising taxes: Peth
The End of the University As We Know It: AEI

Scandal Central

Obama’s Benghazi Fall Guys: RSM
Treasury Prepares to Lose Big on GM Bailout: Beacon
Obama stimulus: Gun buyers nationwide tweet about long lines, empty shelves: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

Climate Change Draft Undermines U.N.'s Claims: IBD
No bigs: Head of EPA does a bunch of her work on alias e-mail account: Hot Air
Obama Says Hotcoldwetdry One Of The Top 3 Issues He’ll Blow Off In 2nd Term: RWN

Media

“President Obama to push assault weapons ban in second term”: Protein Wisdom
NY Times Really Loves Anti-Gun Letters: Cove
Judge Robert Bork dead at 84: DC

Hudson’s, the Buhl CafĂ© and Mrs. P’s Maurice: MOTUS
Krauthammer: Obama's use of a child massacre to say GOP must accept his terms is a SACRILEGE!: Scoop
Following School Shooting, 86% Want More Action to Identify and Treat Mental Illness: Rasmussen

Yes, Supporting Gun Control Is Racist: Bookworm
Lefty Media Tweeters Go After Reporters at Obama Presser For Not Obsessing Over Gun Control: BizzyBlog
#Metaphor: Academics Sign Their Own Death Warrants by Defending Loomis: RSM

World

Benghazi: State Department fail: Fausta
Benghazi Report Disqualifies Hillary For White House: IBD
A Challenge to All Progressives and RINOs, Who STILL Believe Obama is NOT a Communist: Loudon

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Netflix Encodes Every Movie 120 Different Ways: NetFlix
Maya Rise and Fall Photo Gallery: NatGeo
The Ultra-Legacy Problem - Systems so old...: Infosec Island

Cornucopia

Racists White Teabaggers Attack Black SC Republican Tim Scott: AWD
California substitute teacher inherits cousin's $7.4M gold coin fortune: Fox

Image: Lame Duck President Wins Prestigious Gun Competition
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QOTD: "The results of the Gun Free School Zone act’s passage have been devastating. The first mass school shooting occurred in 1997. As prominent researcher John Lott has noted, mass shooters are attracted to defenseless victim zones. While zones that ban armed citizens are a tiny percentage of the nation’s area, according to Lott, only one of the “successful” (four or more victims) mass shootings in the past thirty years occurred outside of a defenseless victim zone (gun free zone).

Why do mass shooters chose defenseless victim zones? Because they want the fame that goes with the media attention that a mass killer gets, and to get the attention, they have to kill a lot of people. If they are stopped by an armed citizen, they lose their chance to make the “record books”, and there is no point in mass killing.

Armed citizens stop about one in ten of mass killings before they become “successful”, but they are rarely mentioned because of this fact. Most of these life saving actions occur outside of defenseless victim zones.

We have a real world counterexample to the Gun Free School Zone act in Israel. Israelis were confronted with a similar problem after the Maalot massacre in the 1970s They responded by allowing teachers, responsible older students, and volunteer parents to be armed in their schools. They have not had a child shot in a school since.

Since the Gun Free School Zone act was passed for the second time in 1996, 13 mass school shootings have occurred. This unconstitutional law has been a disaster and should be repealed." --Dean Weingarten

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