I applaud her, but parts of that article made me :banghead:
Author Paul Barrett, who this year published, Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, said that despite the wide slate of research dedicated to the subject, criminologists still are stumped about whether permissive gun-carry laws have any effect on crime rates.
"The prevalence of guns in American society most certainly makes violent crimes more lethal," Barrett said. "But you cannot draw a neat, causal connection between policies that encourage people to walk around armed and higher or lower crime rates."
Restaurant owner Randy Rayburn said he has had death threats sent to him since he banned guns from his eateries. But his businesses have not suffered.
Josh Clinton, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, said highly charged stories like Goeser's are effective in galvanizing the public and lawmakers around an issue. But often, the emotion of the story dwarfs the complexity of public policy.
"For every Nikki Goeser, there's an incident of someone shooting off a gun accidentally," he said. "There are powerful anecdotes on both sides, and they are usually picked up by people who have a pre-existing stance."
First the headshot (without any reported provocation), andBut her life changed after watching a man walk into a bar in April 2009 on a rain-soaked night here and shoot her husband in the head with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. The shooter then stood over him and continued to fire rounds into his body.
makes it sound VERY personal to me - far from a random vic selection. But, that's just MHO. Pax......then stood over him and continued to fire rounds into his body.
It sounds to me as if the story is incomplete... First the headshot (without any reported provocation), and makes it sound VERY personal to me - far from a random vic selection. But, that's just MHO. Pax...
Here is more of a back story. It wasn't random per se, her husband was murdered by a man who had been stalking her.
First Freedom magazine