Conservative commentator David Frum disagrees with the NRA and Anne Coulter on guns.
http://us.cnn.com/2013/01/15/opinion...html?hpt=hp_t3
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Last year, 83 people died by homicide in Baton Rouge. Of that number, 87% were black, and 87% were male. Two-thirds had been in trouble with the law before, and one-third had been in trouble with the law for drugs. The median age of victims: 26.
"Of the perpetrators, the median age was 22. Get this: 96% of them were black, and 90% were male. Almost two-thirds had previous arrests. One out of four had a drug record.
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a gun kept in the house is 43 times more likely to kill a household member than to be used in self-defense.
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The gun laws intended to put guns into the hands of "good guys" are the laws that also multiply guns in the hands of "bad guys" -- bad guys who might not have become such bad guys if the guns had not been available to their hands.
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I don't know what's going on with Frum but lately he's been making much more sense (minus a recent articule on marijuana).
And for something a little more like what you used to enspouse:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...ent/?hpt=hp_t3
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"Are the president's kids more important than yours?" a narrator says in the 30 second ad. "Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school."
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