Here is the only known scientific study, covering a span of 20 years, of multiple victim public shootings and the effects on them of legislation.
William M. Landes
University of Maryland Foundation, University of Maryland
University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
October 19, 2000
Few events obtain the same instant worldwide news coverage as multiple victim public shootings. These crimes allow us to study the alternative methods used to kill a large number of people (e.g., shootings versus bombings), marginal deterrence and the severity of the crime, substitutability of penalties, private versus public methods of deterrence and incapacitation, and whether attacks produce "copycats." The criminals who commit these crimes are also fairly unusual, recent evidence suggests that about half of these criminals have received a "formal diagnosis of mental illness, often schizophrenia." Yet, economists have not studied multiple victim shootings. Using data that extends until 1999 and includes the recent public school shootings, our results are surprising and dramatic. While arrest or conviction rates and the death penalty reduce "normal" murder rates and these attacks lead to new calls from more gun control, our results find that the only policy factor to have a consistently significant influence on multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws. We explain why public shootings are more sensitive than other violent crimes to concealed handguns, why the laws reduce the number of shootings and have an even greater effect on their severity.
Obama himself actually signed into law the NDAA which authorizes secret assassinations of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil. Instead of the red list being “conspiracy theory,” it appears to be a key component of Obama’s domestic policy. It's not an urban legend, it's the law!
Something’s fishy with all this. It’s becoming increasingly apparent that an order has come down from the very top to destroy, silence, threaten or execute true American patriots. OK, think of that as an alarmist statement, then read these two links, again holding facts, not innuendo:
Regis Giles
summarizes and includes a link to naturalnews.com discussing "Prominent rifle manufacturer killed in mysterious car crash days after posting psych drug link to school shooters" addressing the possible use of psycho drugs by school shooters and the lack of any picture from Sandy Hook of Adam Lanza holding a rifle. Then a list of amazing coincidences.
The part-time crossing guard in Yonkers revealed to be a gun owner and now treated like a sex offender.
“Communism begins where atheism begins…” - Karl Marx Friends, distorting American history is a deliberate lie, and lying is not permissible by law.
2 shot at California high school, suspect in custody READ MORE AT FOXNEWS.COM A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun (not an assault rifle or "automatic" weapon ) walked into class in a rural California high school on Thursday and shot one student, fired at another and missed, and then was talked into surrendering by a teacher and another staff member, officials said.
Virginia voters favor armed guards in schools Two-thirds of Virginia voters say they want armed guards in schools.
[This color is "Hokie Red". In case you ever wondered, a hokie is actually a poor farmer or a neutered turkey, even though we go as the fighting gobblers. When I attended and was on the faculty at Virginia Tech no one worried about gun violence on campus, probably because concealed carry was allowed and everybody knew it. Heck, it's the Corps of Cadets, for goodness sake, for whom military training is a big part. Likewise when I taught at Colorado Mines I feared no evil because there were students in the mining department who OPEN carried - go Blue and Silver Orediggers].
The Second Amendment Foundation, which was formed to guard gun owners’ legal rights, was not invited, even though they asked to come.
As we know now, that was no big deal because the Vice President pretty much ignored the NRA and, instead, lectured them a la' Des Moines Register columnist Donald Kaul [Kaul: Nation needs a new agenda on guns. This time, the debate has to be about more than not offending the NRA's sensibilities.] The column advocated, in case you missed this crowning jewel of journalism defended as sarcasm but accepted by many as sincerity:
In contrast, one of the good old guys, a rational, level, salt of the earth Iowan, John Carlson, retired editorial writer, did give us this to the point article, "It’s hard to have a conversation about guns if everyone’s yelling".• Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. It offers an absolute right to gun ownership, but it puts it in the context of the need for a “well-regulated militia.” We don’t make our militia bring their own guns to battles. And surely the Founders couldn’t have envisioned weapons like those used in the Newtown shooting when they guaranteed gun rights. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.
• Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.
• Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
And if that didn’t work, I’d adopt radical measures. None of that is going to happen, of course. But I’ll bet gun sales will rise.
Me? I'm more worried about watching our government than I am about watching anyone's guns. Read how they are scrambling to find a scapegoat for yet another serious security leak.
And now, it's time for breakfast.
When the toast is burned
And all the milk has turned
And Cap'n Crunch is wavin' farewell
When the big one finds you
Let this song remind you:
They don't serve breakfast in hell!
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