After a person ‘Taynton’ supporting gun free SA wrote this to the newspapers http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=40442 another by the name of P. Moss replied:
To: letters@witness.co.za
Subject: Comfort zone or danger zone?
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 00:05:31 +0200
Dear Editor
Andrew Taynton “Moving out of comfort zones”, Witness 12 May, brings up
some very good points of the reluctance of many to see the truth even
when backed by solid evidence.
To test what Taynton had written I applied these revelations to something
that has worried me for some time. How can an inanimate object be held
responsible for crime allowing the solution to be promoted that removal
of this object will reduce crime.
I looked at the evidence and found the acclaimed three volume research of
the US government by independent and not biased researchers, James D.
Wright and Peter H. Rossi who interviewed convicted felons and reviewed
some 20,000 laws, showed the futility of gun control and gun control laws
as having no social value at all. To confirm this report I then found
the research of the CDC an acknowledged biased gun control organisation
that had its funding cut by the US congress for producing propaganda at
public expense.
In order to get back the lost funding the CDC had it’s own review
committee examine 51 of its best published studies. Examining the
effectiveness of gun-control laws, bans on specified firearms or
ammunition, restrictions on firearm acquisition, waiting periods for
firearm acquisition, firearm registration and licensing of owners, “Shall
issue” concealed weapon carry laws, child access prevention laws, zero
tolerance laws for firearms in schools and combinations of firearms laws.
The CDC task force reported thus – “In summary, the Task Force found
insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the
firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence”. The National Academy of
Sciences conducted a even larger more comprehensive review of published
works and found the same result.
Could Andrew Taynton possibly explain why gun control and gun control
laws are seen and promoted as the salvation of our crime problem when it
patently is not?
P. Moss
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