This is a story a few days old, but worth posting.
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ANN ARBOR -- Gun shows don't contribute to increased homicide or suicide rates, according to results of a study announced Wednesday by the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
The joint University of Michigan and University of Maryland examination of gun death data in the weeks surrounding more than 3,400 California and Texas gun shows concluded tighter regulation of the flea market-like operations did nothing to reduce firearms-related deaths in the following month.
Researchers compared gunshot death data surrounding every known gun show in California and Texas between 1994 and 2004. California has some of the most stringent gun sale rules in the country. Texas is among the least restrictive.
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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/METRO/8100203...
Even if guns or gun shows DID increase the rates of any sort of death, what does it matter? The ownership and possession of arms is specifically AFFIRMED to be legal by the power of TWO CONSTITUTIONS.
that's easy for you to say, GZ. Don't tell me about the Constitution, civil rights and firearms. I heard about you, sneaking through the gun show loop hole with an arm load of AK 47s.
It's nice to see a persistent myth refuted for the umpteenth time, but I'm afraid the argument over firearms and the Heller decision look a lot like legalized abortion and Roe v. Wade. Abortion's legal, so all you jack booted anti-freedom fascists can pack up your signs, tar and feathers and go back home and get back to work - and stop minding other people's business. It's the same situation here. The Heller decision affirms the right of the individual to keep and bear arms, so the Brady Bunch might as well pack it all in. They can find some sympathizers from the anti-abortion retirees, and the two groups can sit around and swap lies about the good old days, when the nation was a nation and men were men.