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Title: Armed Citizen Project Giving Guns to the Poor
Source:
The Truth About Guns
URL Source: http://lewrockwell.com/rep4/guns-for-the-poor.html
Published: Apr 6, 2013
Author: Dan Zimmerman
Post Date: 2013-04-06 09:31:09 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 325
Comments: 18
More guns = less crime. That’s the Lottian corollary. Not to mention the experience of law abiding gun owners from sea to shining sea. “As criminals have more reason to fear the citizenry, crime begins to drop as a result.” And there you have the common sense thinking that animates the activism of Kyle Coplen, founder of the Houston-based Armed Citizen Project. Much to the horror of civilian disarmers, Coplen intends to put the corollary work on a micro level . . . foxnews.com reports: To test his theory that guns will make people safer, Coplen also plans to arm an entire neighborhood in Houston that currently has a lot of crime, and use that as a case study to find out what happens to the crime rate after residents have been armed and trained. That means he’ll give gratis guns to residents of low income, high crime neighborhoods, as long as they pass a NICS check and undergo firearms and gun law training. Let a thousand little sociological laboratories bloom. What’s not to like? Once he’s done it in Houston, he’s aiming for infinity and beyond. Next up: Gabby Giffords’ old district in Tucson. “We intend for this project to become national, and we will be arming communities all across the country. My goal, for the first year, is to train and arm 1,000 households,” he said. Quick – you get three guesses as to who thinks this is a bad idea. Don’t worry you won’t need all three. “Handing out guns in a high-crime neighborhood is like distributing cigarettes in a community with a high incidence of respiratory disease,” said Ladd Everitt, the Director of Communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Because law abiding poor people – those trapped in high crime neighborhoods without the economic means to vote with their feet – can’t be trusted to take advantage of armed self defense. No, they have to rely on the responsiveness of the local po-po to get there and provide protection for themselves and their families. Here’s another corollary: anything that causes morning cable news show hosts to purse their lips in thinly disguised disapproval while simultaneously causing Ladd Everitt’s Underoos to torque tighter than a clam with lockjaw is probably a good idea. Reprinted from The Truth About Guns with permission.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Plugs Biden should like this project a lot. The weapons are single-shot shotguns. Were I broke and wanted an arm, I'd take one. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Gee, flooding a crime-ridden neighborhood with guns. What could possibly go right?
And just remember folks - "When seconds matter the police are only minutes away." That is of course if you live in a high income neighborhood they like. Depends on your point of view. Perhaps it will scare the criminals into a softer neighborhood. Like yours? This guy is obviously nuts. Arming law-abiding residents in crime-ridden neighborhoods is the best way to reduce gun violence. Now, as long as those residents can keep the guns safely at home, even when they are not home, they can expect to see a much reduced incidence of violent crime. It worked for me when I lived in Chicago. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
The weapons are single-shot shotguns. I wonder what Dickie Chainey thinks? There you go again. Thinking logically. That is not the Liberal/Statist way. Repent.
Surely, you jest. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Stop calling me Shirley.
Honest folks could protect their lives and property from elements created and sustained by the implementation of social policies put forth in the Protocols and fostered by Frankfort School adherents and others of your sort. And if we are really fortunate, some of the right people will die, for a change. Blacks are seven times more likely than whites to be their victims. http://bjs.gov/content/pub/press/htius.pr
Gee I wonder who gets paid way too much money to post stupid shit online. STOP WASTING OUR FUCKING TAX DOLLARS ON SHILLS LIKE SHOONRA! __ There are only two kinds of americans left in the USA those opposed to the tyranny and those that are wrong. Resist propaganda, Support strict constitutional adherence!
My dream is that he'd think it a great idea to eat it. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken People living in less-than-desirable area's should be denied their 2nd Amendment right to protect their lives and property from criminals??
#2. To: Ada (#0)
#3. To: Ada (#0)
Because law abiding poor people – those trapped in high crime neighborhoods without the economic means to vote with their feet – can’t be trusted to take advantage of armed self defense. No, they have to rely on the responsiveness of the local po-po to get there and provide protection for themselves and their families.
#4. To: Shoonra (#2)
Gee, flooding a crime-ridden neighborhood with guns. What could possibly go right?
#5. To: Ada (#0)
“Handing out guns in a high-crime neighborhood is like distributing cigarettes in a community with a high incidence of respiratory disease,” said Ladd Everitt, the Director of Communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence.
#6. To: Lod (#1)
Plugs Biden should like this project a lot.
#7. To: BTP Holdings (#5)
#8. To: Original_Intent (#7)
Repent.
#9. To: BTP Holdings (#8)
#10. To: Shoonra (#2)
What could possibly go right?
America's Restart Button
#11. To: Shoonra (#2)
"Gee, flooding a crime-ridden (black) neighborhood with guns. What could possibly go right?"
#12. To: Shoonra (#2)
Gee, flooding a crime-ridden neighborhood with guns. What could possibly go right?
#13. To: Original_Intent, 4 (#6)
I wonder what Dickie Cheney thinks?
#14. To: Shoonra (#2)
Gee, flooding a crime-ridden neighborhood with guns. What could possibly go right?
-Alex Kurtagic
#15. To: Shoonra (#2)
she-ra breaking the sabbath doing servile work for its masters, with no blood sacrifice to atone for your sin no Abraham's bosom for you!
I used to be in a hurry, then I figured out I was just getting nowhere fast.
#16. To: IRTorqued (#15)
I Don't Roll On Shabbos !!!
#17. To: Big Meanie (#11) (Edited)
My sister, who still lives in Chicago, tells me that all of the shootings there are black on black, and either gang or drug related, 'nuff said. ;) Blacks are seven times more likely than whites to be their victims.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#18. To: X-15 (#14)
The Supreme Court ruled in Heller that the 2nd Amendment is an individual right. ;) People living in less-than-desirable area's should be denied their 2nd Amendment right to protect their lives and property from criminals??
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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