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发帖数: 11154 | 1 很长的一篇文章，探讨了一些拥枪方面的话题:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0311/Gun-nation-Insid
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"Around kids, guns are scary, but jogging on the greenway at night? That's a
different story," says Ms. Frickman.
In that way, the two women represent a new, largely pro-gun demographic. A
majority of married women support the right to carry a concealed weapon in
America, while single women, on the whole, do not. Overall, 85 percent of
Americans support the right to keep and bear arms, according to a survey by
Angus Reid Public Opinion. A 1991 poll by the Los Angeles Times put that
number at 68 percent.
“保护作用”的双重性，一方面出于保护心理不希望自己的孩子接近枪支，另一方面需
要枪支作为自我保护的平衡力量。
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Yet Americans are hardly monolithic in their views. In a Monitor/TIPP poll
conducted in February, a majority of those surveyed said they supported more
restrictive gun rights. Southerners, people between the ages of 18 and 24,
and those earning between $50,000 and $75,000 a year made up the only major
demographic groups where the majority favored less restrictive gun laws. Not
surprisingly, gun rights are more broadly supported in factory towns and
rural areas than in suburban and downtown zones.
5万到7万5这个群体比较有趣；比上不足，没有足够的社会和政治影响力；比下有余，
又有一些值得保护的东西；所以作为一个群体普遍拥枪？
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While many people automatically assume the expansion of gun rights is linked
to the power of the National Rifle Association (NRA) – which does remain a
magnum political force in Washington and across much of the country –
others say it is the effectiveness of smaller, and often more uncompromising
, groups like Valone's that are shifting the debate. Many of them are run by
just a handful of committed activists who spread their frequently tart
messages through pamphlets, blogs, and massive e-mail lists.
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Back in the 1960s and '70s, a formidable gun control movement formed out of
concern about urban crime. Widespread riots and the assassinations of Martin
Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy and, later, the wounding of President
Reagan added to concerns about the prevalence of guns. Other high-profile
shootings, including the killing of five children in Stockton, Calif., in
1989 and the slaying of four federal agents during a siege at the Branch
Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, focused attention on assault
weapons in particular.
A bevy of national laws followed – restrictions on mail-order rifle sales
in 1968, the outlawing of "cop killer" bullets in 1984, the establishment of
"drug-free school zones" in 1990 that included stiff penalties for anyone
carrying guns in those areas, an assault weapons ban in 1994. By most
accounts, the assault weapons ban, which tellingly expired in 2004, marked
the end of the gun control arc.
舆论宣传的强大威力；主流观点一旦改变，法律也就跟风变了。
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The pro-gun movement has been expanding ever since, aided in part by
favorable legal rulings and writings. In 1989, Mr. Levinson, the Texas law
professor, wrote a notable essay in the Yale Law Review in which he
suggested that citizen participation in government might extend to the
Second Amendment.
Levinson looked specifically at whether "ordinary citizens [should]
participate in the process of law enforcement and defense of liberty rather
than rely on professionalized peacekeepers, whether we call them standing
armies or police." Gun rights activists consider it a hinge moment in the
gun debate, since it marked one of the first such dissections of the Second
Amendment by a liberal legal scholar.
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After looking at the plethora of research on the topic, the Chronicle of
Higher Education recently concluded: "No scholars now claim that legalizing
concealed weapons causes a major increase in crime."
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For Joe Binns, that means no Colt .45 under his coat. A retired coal miner
from Pennsylvania who spends his winters in Garner, Mr. Binns believes all
guns – even hunting rifles – should be locked in the local police station.
If someone wants to shoot a deer or turkey, they can go down to the station
house and check out their Browning or Springfield.
"Guns everywhere, it's ridiculous," he says. "If you're in trouble, call the
cops."
这点么，呵呵
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He says that many of the attendees come from surrounding communities,
including liberal Chapel Hill. When he asks them why they don't take classes
in their own area, the answer is revealing.
"They don't want their family or neighbors to know," he says. "There's still
an uneasiness about gun carry, this persistent and collective idea that
guns are bad." | C*******r
发帖数: 10345 | | s****i
发帖数: 2993 | 3 if she would like to jog in the night in an unsafe area, with a gun or not
she's looking for trouble |
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