John Stossel: People still die in `gunless utopia`

GGReporter · 02-29-2008, 09:32 AM

“How, then, does it make sense to create mandatory gun-free zones, which in reality are free-crime zones?” asks John Stossel. “The usual suspects keep calling for more gun control laws. But this idea that gun control is crime control is just a myth. The National Academy of Sciences reviewed dozens of studies and could not find a single gun regulation that clearly led to reduced violent crime or murder. When Washington, D.C., passed its tough handgun ban years ago, gun violence rose.”

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Windwalker · 02-29-2008, 11:30 AM

All the States who have Senators and Representatives who can't or won't see that Gun-Free Zones turn into Kill Zones and that all the studies reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences could not find a SINGLE GUN REGULATION that clearly led to reduced violent crime or murder must be removed from office. Get out and vote!

GlockMeister · 02-29-2008, 11:40 AM

I wish I was good at the puter. I'd love to send this story to every single Illinois politician! John Stossel tells it straight.

damage855 · 02-29-2008, 01:50 PM

Its about time the media started to see that fact.

jashoffa · 02-29-2008, 09:47 PM

John Stossel is the man. I have watched him for years and he always make a lot of since. Again he hit the nail on the head!

02-29-2008, 09:32 AM	#1
GGReporter Magazine Staff Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 717	John Stossel: People still die in `gunless utopia` “How, then, does it make sense to create mandatory gun-free zones, which in reality are free-crime zones?” asks John Stossel. “The usual suspects keep calling for more gun control laws. But this idea that gun control is crime control is just a myth. The National Academy of Sciences reviewed dozens of studies and could not find a single gun regulation that clearly led to reduced violent crime or murder. When Washington, D.C., passed its tough handgun ban years ago, gun violence rose.” More...

02-29-2008, 11:30 AM	#2
Windwalker Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 3,585	All the States who have Senators and Representatives who can't or won't see that Gun-Free Zones turn into Kill Zones and that all the studies reviewed by the National Academy of Sciences could not find a SINGLE GUN REGULATION that clearly led to reduced violent crime or murder must be removed from office. Get out and vote! __________________ America: Love it and protect it or leave it

02-29-2008, 11:40 AM	#3
GlockMeister Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 5,483	I wish I was good at the puter. I'd love to send this story to every single Illinois politician! John Stossel tells it straight. __________________ I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6!

02-29-2008, 01:50 PM	#4
damage855 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: North Carolina / Lake Norman Posts: 931 Blog Entries: 1	Its about time the media started to see that fact. __________________ If total goverment control will make us all safer, then why are prisons so dangerous?

02-29-2008, 09:47 PM	#5
jashoffa Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Iowa Posts: 411	John Stossel is the man. I have watched him for years and he always make a lot of since. Again he hit the nail on the head! __________________ "I don't go shooting without my guns and they don't go shooting without me!" Member NRA