Mumbai and the Horror of Gun Control
by Jacob G. Hornberger
In the wake of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, I can already hear the U.S. gun-control crowd calling for new gun-control measures here in the United States. There will be several big problems with their pleas.
One, as an article in the International Herald Tribune points out, India has strict gun-control laws. Those laws did not prevent the terrorist attack at the Oberoi and Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel. As libertarians have long been pointing out, terrorists and murderers have no reservations about disobeying gun-control laws. The long-held assumption among the gun-control crowd that murderers and terrorists will respect and obey gun-control laws, even while having no reservations about violating laws against murder and terrorism, is ridiculous, as the Mumbai killings once again demonstrate.
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Mumbai and the Horror of Gun Control
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308Mike
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Mumbai and the Horror of Gun Control
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POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
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Mr Hornberger is correct, at least in the teaser portion, I didn't feel the need to read the whole article.
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It surely beats trying to figure out what the metrosexuals want ( a good hard kick in the nuts in my opinion, but that won't sell ice cream :D )- Highspeed
It surely beats trying to figure out what the metrosexuals want ( a good hard kick in the nuts in my opinion, but that won't sell ice cream :D )- Highspeed
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the whole thing is accurate, but somehow this will be spun as another issue where more gun control could have prevented killings...
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It's true, had the Indian police at the train station taken proper control of the firearms they had with them, they could have prevented many of the killings by taking down the bastards in front of them.mekender wrote:the whole thing is accurate, but somehow this will be spun as another issue where more gun control could have prevented killings...
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
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172 people killed and 239 people wounded by 10 gunmen in 60 hours. They were well trained!
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mekender
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sadly, they really werent well trained... the police combating them were just really poorly trained.D5CAV wrote:172 people killed and 239 people wounded by 10 gunmen in 60 hours. They were well trained!
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Because one guy shooting while another reloads is totally the earmark of well trained professionals!D5CAV wrote:172 people killed and 239 people wounded by 10 gunmen in 60 hours. They were well trained!
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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308Mike
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And even worse led and motivated.mekender wrote:sadly, they really werent well trained... the police combating them were just really poorly trained.D5CAV wrote:172 people killed and 239 people wounded by 10 gunmen in 60 hours. They were well trained!
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad