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Article: Gun-control crowd misuses fear factor to distort the truth. (fair comment).
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- November 12, 2002
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It perhaps was inevitable that the recent sniper killings in the Washington-area suburbs would be seized upon by advocates of gun control. Like so much in the agenda of the political left, gun-control arguments would collapse like a house of cards if people just stopped to think through what is being said instead of being swept along by emotional rhetoric.
Start with the very name "gun control." Do gun-control laws actually control guns? Why would someone who obviously is willing repeatedly to break the laws against murder be unwilling to break gun-control laws?
Gun-control laws do not control people who are in the business of breaking laws. Gun control ...