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Originally Posted by Peaches
There were 7 college students killed recently in Atlanta in a bus accident. Buses must be bad.
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What an idiotic thing to say. Comparing an accident to a killing spree.
Oh, and in regards to Kennesaw..
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennesaw,_Georgia
Criminologist and gun-control critic Gary Kleck attributes a drop of 89% in the residential burglary rate to the law (Kleck, 1991), and Kennesaw is often cited by advocates of gun ownership as evidence that gun ownership deters crime (see, for instance, this 2004 sheet of talking points from the Gun Owners Foundation). Other criminologists dispute the 89% figure, using the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data, and find instead a small, statistically insignificant increase in burglaries after the law was passed (McDowall, Wiersema and Loftin, 1989; McDowall, Lizotte and Wiersema, 1991).
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I think whether or not gun control has an impact on the number of burglaries or murders is irrelevant. For me, it's entire purpose is preventing spree killings If someone has a beef with someone to the point that they want to murder them, they're going to kill them. It could be with a gun and it could just as easily be with a knife. But try and find some lunatic who has a beef with the world who can go on a spree killing with a knife. That's what gun control is about. Preventing massive spree killings.