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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Thanks once again for looking into it
	Date:	1/11/2013 12:14:47 PM

I may have misjudged you and placed you into the same category as Archie et al who would never actually have the intellectual curiosity to read something that disputes their world view and just resort to ad hominum attacks. I apologize for doing that because you said you would look into Lott's work and you did.

As for your very good questions at the end, on the face of it there may be other reasons for limits but reducing gun violence would not be one of them. Your question in my view gets to the heart of the problem right now. We are talking about and debating all the wrong things. We need to ask why, in the last 25 years or so, has this become so common. Why is it happening in places like Europe or Asia? What has changed with our culture or how we deal with mental illness or a myriad of other questions that have nothing to do with guns.

I really believe that most of the politicians proposing gun control in response to Sandy Hook and Aurora fall into one of two categories: 1) hard left types that think the 2nd Amendment only applies to hunting and truly want to disarm Americans (this is a small group); and 2) cynical politicians that want to take advantage of a perceived crisis to do something.....anything.....within their sphere of power that does not upset their core constituency. Can you imagine the reaction if the Governor of NY was screaming to control violent movies and video games and that NY had to lead the way? The answer is they have no problem attacking groups that don't line their pockets but stay away from those that do and that is a bipartisan problem.