Group gives guns to poor inner city residents in high crime areas. Grrrr.

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cali (78,260 posts)

Group gives guns to poor inner city residents in high crime areas. Grrrr.


 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/armed-citizens-project-arizona_n_2977944.html

The Armed Citizen Project is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to training and arming residents in mid-high crime areas with defensive shotguns, for free! In training and arming law-abiding residents, we are saturating neighborhoods with defensive weapons, and measuring the effect that a heavily armed society has on crime rates.

Our founder, Kyle Coplen, is a policy analyst in his final semester of the Masters of Public Administration program with the University of Houston. Tired of the blatant manipulation and politicization of statistics when it comes to the relationship between firearms and safety, Kyle decided to conduct a multi-year, multi-city study that may be able to establish the definitive link that the gun debate is sorely lacking.
http://www.armedcitizenproject.org/

It's not just Arizona.

As cities around the country experiment with gun-buybacks to get weapons off the street, one man has started a group to do just the opposite. It's called the "Armed Citizen Project," and it aims to provide guns to poor Americans in high crime neighborhoods.

"As criminals have more reason to fear the citizenry, crime begins to drop as a result," Kyle Coplen, the founder, told FoxNews.com.

This week, the group gave out its first weapons.

"We just trained and armed a class of 10 women. They are now empowered with the knowledge and tools to put holes in those that would do them harm," Coplen said.

To test his theory that guns will make people safer, Coplen also plans to arm an entire neighborhood in Houston that currently has a lot of crime, and use that as a case study to find out what happens to the crime rate after residents have been armed and trained.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/31/group-wants-to-give-guns-to-poor/#ixzz2P78KDd35

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10022592629

It all depends on who comes and gets the free guns. If the 0bama sons do then it will be a war zone and they will probably kill each other off. If the decent civilized people in the community get them, then the 0bama sons will either end up shot or decide that it isn't worth it to mess with decent people who have arms.

The DUmmies are funny creatures they worry more about decent civilized people having guns than they do about the 0bama sons.

BainsBane (6,843 posts)
1. More guns = more deaths

I have trouble believing this is not their intent. If you take out more of the urban population, the right might be able to "take back" the America they feel they've lost.

The DUmmy is right more guns = more deaths. How many time have you gone to a shooting range and seen the bodies piled up in the corner? 

baldguy (29,737 posts)
19. For the RW extremist gun weirdos, suicides don't count.

And the killings of people like George Zimmerman who claim "self defense" don't count. And accidents don't count. And if the gun owner has the gun illegally it doesn't count. And if either the killer or the victim are involved with drugs, or have psychological challenges, it doesn't count. And if it's a mass murder it doesn't count. And if multiple guns were used it doesn't count. And if the gun was stolen it doesn't count.

All these qualifications allow RW extremist gun weirdos to ignore the blood of other people's children.

WTF? The only thing on your list that I would say doesn't count is Zimmerman defending himself from 0bama's first son.

madville (1,159 posts)
29. Sounds like they are following Joe Biden's advice

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I just hope the training class doesn't endorse shooting through doors.

I'm curious what kind of ammo they provide for self defense, there has always been a big debate over which is better for densly populated areas, buckshot or birdshot?
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Response to cali (Original post)Sun Mar 31, 2013, 09:46 AM
 Duckhunter935 (1,186 posts)
30. just following

Vice President Bidens advice. Good for them.

 

[Mr Mannn]

DUmmies hate this because it shows they are liars for saying: Gun ownership is racist.

[98ZJUSMC]

BainsBane (6,843 posts)
1. More guns = more deaths

I have trouble believing this is not their intent.

That's the least of your troubles.

If you take out more of the urban population, the right might be able to "take back" the America they feel they've lost.

There are other ways.

baldguy (29,737 posts)
19. For the RW extremist gun weirdos, suicides don't count.

And the killings of people like George Zimmerman who claim "self defense" don't count. And accidents don't count. And if the gun owner has the gun illegally it doesn't count. And if either the killer or the victim are involved with drugs, or have psychological challenges, it doesn't count. And if it's a mass murder it doesn't count. And if multiple guns were used it doesn't count. And if the gun was stolen it doesn't count.

All these qualifications allow RW extremist gun weirdos to ignore the blood of other people's children.

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Hopefully some misguided yutes will learn about accountability the hard way from this, and possibly serve as an object lesson to others of their ilk.

[Undies]

The DUmmies have been extra freaky about guns ever since Sonia Sotomayor's son shot that Obama's son.  They don't know what to do with themselves.

[vesta111]

The DUmmies have been extra freaky about guns ever since Sonia Sotomayor's son shot that Obama's son.  They don't know what to do with themselves.

As Jesus said " The poor will always be among us "

Why do the Libs believe that POOR= Criminal ???  People go from rags to riches and back to poor again every day.

So why should the poor be denied self defence for themselves to guard the few items they value??

Self defence can empower the poor to escape the victim mentality.  Once people that have been downtrodden all their lives learn they can fight back for themselves may empower then to get as far out of poverty as possible  without going the criminal road.

[BlueStateSaint]

Note how the OP conveniently neglects to add that the residents who get the single-shot 20-gauge shotguns through this program must pass a NICS check . . .

[GOBUCKS]

It all depends on who comes and gets the free guns. If the 0bama sons do then it will be a war zone and they will probably kill each other off.

And the bad thing about that is......help me out here.

[BlueStateSaint]

And the bad thing about that is......help me out here.

There's always the possibilty of a good and decent person travelling through such an area at a time when a firefight is going on, and getting hit with a stray round.  The chance is pretty remote, but it does exist.

[Evil_Conservative]

BainsBane (6,843 posts)
1. More guns = more deaths

Really?  I know of quite a few other houses on our street who have numerous guns.  There hasn't been a single death or accidental shooting on our street.  Since we live in Nevada, I'm sure pretty much every other house in our subdivision is armed.  No crime here.  The only gun shots I hear are people target shooting in the vast open desert near our house on occasion.

[Freeper]

Really?  I know of quite a few other houses on our street who have numerous guns.  There hasn't been a single death or accidental shooting on our street.  Since we live in Nevada, I'm sure pretty much every other house in our subdivision is armed.  No crime here.  The only gun shots I hear are people target shooting in the vast open desert near our house on occasion.

If there were any primitives in your neighborhood they crawl under the kitchen table and cry themselves to sleep when they hear those evil guns out there shooting.

[Evil_Conservative]

If there were any primitives in your neighborhood they crawl under the kitchen table and cry themselves to sleep when they hear those evil guns out there shooting.

I know a couple of blocks down, we have ONE person with an Obama/Biden bumper sticker on his Range Rover.  That damn Earth killer.

[BlueStateSaint]

I know a couple of blocks down, we have ONE person with an Obama/Biden bumper sticker on his Range Rover.  That damn Earth killer.

The ultimate in hypocrisy . . . Probably buys a lot of 'carbon credits' to offset.

[JohnnyReb]

 If the 0bama sons do then it will be a war zone and they will probably kill each other off.

Explain to me how that would be a bad thing?

[Delmar]

Response to cali (Original post)Sun Mar 31, 2013, 10:46 AM
socialist_n_TN (8,119 posts)
43. All the better to arm the working class.......

and lumpenproletariat. What these RWers don't realize is that they are setting up the means for an eventual worker's militia as soon as the neighborhood and workplace councils take shape.

 

[diesel driver]

socialist_n_TN (8,119 posts)
43. All the better to arm the working class.......

and lumpenproletariat. What these RWers don't realize is that they are setting up the means for an eventual worker's militia as soon as the neighborhood and workplace councils take shape.

      

And of course:  HUH???