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Matt Bors for August 24, 2012
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NRA Headquarters GUNZ! Spokesman: Look, we're really interested in having a national conversation on guns. Spokesman: We just feel it would be... INAPPROPRIATE the week of a memorial for shooting victims. Reporter: There's, like, one every week now. Spokesman: Think of it as a really long moment of silence.
The NY case was another example of what I call the “Churchill effect”. Winston said that nothing was as exciting as having someone shoot at you, and miss. The first time, it IS kinda’ exciting, and your aim is screwed up as a result. After a while, when it’s “commonplace”, your reactions, and aim, improve.
Nine bystanders were hit in New York. Give a dozen “amateurs” guns, to do what the TRAINED POLICE found difficult, and the death toll will go UP, not down, period!