Notes From HPS
BY Herschel Smith
9 years ago
“Demographic Death’ of NRA Just Another Big Media Myth,” economist, author and Crime Prevention Research Center Founder and President John Lott writes in a “Perspective” piece for Investors Business Daily.
He’s addressing a Washington Post analysis by UCLA School of Law Professor and author Adam Winkler, which claims changing demographics will diminish the National Rifle Associations’ political influence.
We don’t know true gun ownership rates and how they have changed because we can’t rely on people admitting true gun ownership to pollsters, Lott argues. What we do know is “concealed handgun permits and gun sales have soared.”
We also see support for “gun control” has fallen in spite of currently experienced demographic changes, more people believing they are safer with a gun in the home, and a rise in urban gun ownership, including among blacks, Lott tells us.
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The question Lott could have addressed, but did not, is how are all these people he and Winkler are talking about voting?
Good Lord! What kind of dope is John Lott smoking? Regular readers know I soured on John Lott from way back, and then his argument with me over open carry in Texas (along with his chicken little “the sky is falling” attitude about what we might lose in Texas if we support open carry), put me over the edge. He’s as much of a negative influence on the gun rights community and a sellout as Alan Gottlieb.
Bet you didn’t know there was such a thing as a .9 mm gun, did you? Honestly, you would think respectable outfits would require that their writers know at least a little bit about their subject. But this is Salon, not a respectable outfit.
This is an awesome thing, but you need to get yourself a serious fighting rifle, ma’am. An AR-15 will do just fine.
Rush Limbaugh comes along in his thinking, but he’s not quite there yet. He should have articulated that the reason we don’t like Hispanic laborers paid low wages isn’t because hard workers deserve more, it’s because we don’t want to fund their health care, SNAP and welfare for the benefit of corporations (which is nothing more than corporate welfare). Furthermore, Rush hints at it, but doesn’t say it and may not see it as clearly as we do. Our attitude is one of scorched earth. Burn it all down. If the GOP is as much of a sellout this cycle as it has been lately, then end the pain and suffering now and burn it all down.
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