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    | Why I Want Crooks to Know That My House Is a Gun-Free Zone Submitted by: 
			
Mark A. Taff
 Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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    | Forced to choose, would you rather have a sign in your front yard announcing you are a proud gun owner, or one that your home is a gun-free zone? For gun advocates, the choice is obvious: As widely-discredited researcher John Lott frequently opines, “Criminals see victims in gun-free zones as sitting ducks. Even the most ardent gun control advocate would not put ‘Gun-Free Zone’ signs on their home. Let’s finally stop putting them elsewhere.”
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     jac
     (11/20/2015) |  
    | What an idiot. 
 I would bet $100 at 10 to 1 odds that he doesn't have a sign in his yard announcing that he does not have guns in his house.
 
 And the only people discrediting John Lott's research are the same brain dead liberals.  They discredit it on the basis of their feelings, not on any facts.  You want discredited research, look at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
 
 Yes, criminals steal guns, but in many instances they leave them behind because they are too identifiable and all but guarantee a conviction if they are caught.
 
 And even if he denies it, this idiot benefits from gun owners.  Ask any criminal.  The thing he fears most is not the police or the courts, it is running up against an armed individual.
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    | Comment by: 
     JimB
     (11/20/2015) |  
    | Don't know where this PHD got his facts! Probally from OBAMA! He is wrong all around. |  
 
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