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Article- Loughner shouldn't start a new push for gun control

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Gun Control Wouldn't Have Stopped Loughner
And Loughner shouldn't start a new push for gun control


Brian Doherty | January 21, 2011
http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/21/g ... have-stopp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I just e-mailed the author, who is an editor there...

Thank God that Jared in Tucson used one of those foot-long magazines making it harder to reload and making it easier to grab, than Cho at Virginia Tech and George Hennard at Lubys when they used short "regular-sized" magazines which no one could grab, and reloaded several times..... think about that a minute.

Those "foot-long high capacity magazines" ... probably saved lives.
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Re: Article- Loughner shouldn't start a new push for gun con

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Article in a college paper, by an "apparent" rational thinker at least, without an "obvious" agenda.

Tucson tragedy raises questions of diagnosis and prescription
http://www.trinitonian.com/2011/01/22/t ... scription/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
by David Crockett (his photo has him in a coonskin cap)
These questions of diagnosis and prescription are inevitably connected. In the interest of thinking about prescription, I want to focus this column on diagnosis.


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January 23, 2011 at 11:38 am

This article surprises me … in a good way.
Thank you.

“diagnosis and prescription”

Finally, a rational thinker wanting to try to diagnose prior to prescribing.

I wish you were a legislator, I am a bit frustrated with those prescribing prior to diagnosing.


Example:

I personally thank God that Jared in Tucson used one of those foot-long magazines making it harder to reload and making it easier to grab, than Cho used at Virginia Tech and George Hennard used at Lubys when they used short “regular-sized” magazines … which no one could grab,… and reloaded several times….. think about that a minute.

Those “foot-long high capacity magazines” … probably saved lives.

And that’s what some legislators’ knee-jerk reaction is, their prescription is to make everyone use the ones which are impossible to grab that can be reloaded quicker, without even an attempt to diagnose anything as to an initial cause.

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Once again, thank you.
I'm no lawyer

"Never show your hole card" "Always have something in reserve"
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