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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: david86440 on June 25, 2010, 10:00:09 PM
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I watched him on Fox tonight and I am surprised that the John Stossel of years past has changed his views on gun control, gun ownership, concealed carry.
Stossel Argues Gun Control Can Increase Crime, 'I Was Once as Clueless as Senator Schumer'
I was once as clueless as Senator Schumer. Now I admit I was wrong about guns laws. Fewer guns don’t necessarily mean less crime. The opposite may be true. About 10 years ago, a mass shooting in the United Kingdom led Britain to pass one of the toughest gun control laws in the world. ... This did not decrease crime. In fact, gun-related crime merely doubled after the ban passed. Crime increased in Britain while it decreased in America. ... Britain just took guns away from the good guys, the people who obey the law. Doing that makes crime easier for the bad guys. The truth is gun control is not crime control.
During a segment with University of Chicago Professor John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime – a segment which also included the Brady Campaign’s Hannigan – Stossel recounted: "We have this chart from your book that shows violent crime rates after concealed carry laws passed. Here it is for murder. It’s impressive. After the law passed, crime went down."
Next came a discussion of the issue of concealed carry on college campuses, which included advocates on both sides of the issue. David Burnett of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus notably contended: "I would point you to two colleges in Colorado. One of them banned guns in 2003. The other one decided they would allow guns. On the campus that allowed guns, the crime dropped like a rock. And on the campus that banned guns, the crime went up."
Stossel then hosted a segment which included Suzanna Hupp, who has lobbied against gun control in response to losing her parents in a mass shooting at a time when it was illegal to carry guns into restaurants in Texas. Also included was Nikki Goeser, whose husband was shot to death in front of her in a Tennessee bar where she was not legally allowed to bring her own gun for self-defense. And Mark Walters of Armed America Radio recounted the time he defended himself from being carjacked by brandishing a weapon to scare off his attacker.
The FBN host then moved to focus on the effort to overturn Chicago’s handgun ban, and featured Chicago resident and plaintiff Otis McDonald. Stossel recounted the case of D.C.’s gun ban that was overturned by the Supreme Court two years ago, and how changes in the law affected crime in the city: "Murder and other gun violence have dropped in D.C. since the Supreme Court overturned the handgun ban. And let's now go back 35 years to when Washington passed its gun ban. In the years that followed, crime went up compared to other big cities and compared to the rest of America. Fewer guns, more crime."
As he concluded the show, Stossel reminded viewers that he used to be wrong about gun control like the rest of the mainstream media, and showed a clip of Senator Schumer, whom he called a "silly politician," arguing in favor of trigger locks for guns:
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/06/25/stossel-argues-gun-control-increases-crime-i-was-once-clueless-senator-schumer#ixzz0rvQEJxkJ
He actually did us good!
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I saw the tease on the morning show and thought it would be good. However, I didn't get settled in in time last night to see it.
Glad to here it went well!
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John Stossel was doing pro gun pieces on his previous network (CNN ? ) 15 years ago
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Found more video of show here:
http://video.foxbusiness.com/#/v/4255425/your-right-to-own-a-gun/?playlist_id=87530
http://video.foxbusiness.com/#/v/4255437/more-guns-less-crime/?playlist_id=87530
http://video.foxbusiness.com/#/v/4255438/should-students-have-guns-on-campus/?playlist_id=87530
http://video.foxbusiness.com/#/v/4255436/does-gun-control-make-us-safer/?playlist_id=87530