"If you're anti-gun and Lott's book does not ... force you to reconsider the ... benefits of an armed society, you either did not read the book with an open mind, or you do not know how to distinguish a precisely-reasoned argument from a merely political one."
'A full 86 percent feel that casualties would have been reduced ... in recent tragedies like Newtown and Aurora if a legally-armed citizen was present.'
Their evidence flatly contradicts the fatuous uttering of previous US President Democrat Bill Clinton (who's protected by guards with guns), speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative America Conference on June 14, 2016:"MORE people would have been killed if someone [at the Orlando Nightclub where 49 were massacred] had a permitted concealed handgun."
“The gun control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago.
"It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship... fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.
"It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts
- or even the lives of other people.”
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/tom-sowell-wisdom-on-firearms-and-the-constitution
“When we start taking guns away from our citizens, we're arming the bad guys. Gun control is not the answer. Carry a concealed weapon.”
– Sheriff Chuck Wright, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/sheriff-tells-citizens-to-buy-guns.html </p>
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