Hey NRA, Why Doesn't Congress Have Guns?
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne makes a good point in his column today: Members of the U.S. Senate should pack heat. Various senators and other legislators have been pushing a variety of pro-gun measures, from allowing guns in national parks to letting patrons of bars be armed. So, Dionne argues, why don't these same legislators follow their own dictates to their logical conclusion and allow guns in the senate? Or to put it another way, why waste taxpayer money on the security of the capitol police when the free market could do it probably more efficiently by simply arming the senators, their staffs and the tourists?
And he's not kidding:
Don't think this column is offered lightly. I want these guys to put up or shut up. If the NRA's servants in Congress don't take their arguments seriously enough to apply them to their own lives, maybe the rest of us should do more to stop them from imposing their nonsense on our country.
Agreed.
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Oh Schaeffer
I wouldn't expect you to pay much attention to me. Your blinders only allow you to see straight ahead. I'm over here in the region known as common sense - out of your field of vision. Once again, you dance the little sidestep. Where are these vague studies you claim to "refer" to? I don't see any mentioned. You also sidestepped the issue about comparing our statistics to those of other civilized countries. Comparing carry vs non-carry, and the effect of these laws just invites speculation, supposition and downright manipulation. The real exercise should be comparing our violent crime rates and murder rates against countries that have restrictive gun laws and acknowledge the stark difference.
Oh Grundy....
I haven't heard from you in a long time - but then I don't pay much attention to you...
You may google the studies I referred to - They aren't hidden, or you may simply note that the number of "Right To Carry States" is increasing - not decreasing. I suspect that if shootouts were common place in these states the populations would grow weary of the blood bath and change their laws - But perhaps everyone just enjoys that whole "Wild West" atmosphere.
One other note - Crimes that "don't happen" (are deterred) by armed civilians are not easily quantified.
Keep stamping your feet - might stimulate those ol' braincells - or not.
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Why Doesn't Congress Have Guns
Some of congress do have guns, and the rest that do not have guns, would shoot there foot off. If congress shoot like they run the government, they would not be able to find the safety.
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