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Gun ownership — a precursor to gun violence — can spread "much like an infectious disease circulates," said Daniel Webster, a health policy expert and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore. "There's sort of a contagion phenomenon" after a shooting, where people feel they need to have a gun for protection or retaliation, he said.
I notice that "retaliation" was mentioned. Other than terrorist attacks, when has this come up? I think it is one of those things you notice sometimes that gun-haters seem to have a lot of violence in their own mind assume all gun owners are just as violent or more.
And yet people take off all their clothes, lie down on a table, and let these gun-haters come after them with a knife
That's the same article.
Poor old James Holmes. He had no idea when he bought those guns that they would influence him to be a full-contact film critic.
Good thing he wasn't watching John Carter.
"Health" is not a replacement for honor, virtue, and morality, though many would have it so.
This article is yet ANOTHER example of my growing belief that this country is overrun with idiots.
Neither is "security."This article is yet ANOTHER example of my growing belief that this country is overrun with idiots.