Interesting article in, of all places, "The Trace!"

[Gary L. Griffiths]

https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/good-guy-handgun-ownership-harvard-survey/
Interestingly honest article from the normally anti-gun "The Trace." Note that while the anti's are quick to infer causality when higher homicide rates occur in high gun-ownership areas, they don't ascribe any of the lower homicide rates they cite in this article to higher rates of gun ownership and concealed carry.

 

[DaleA]

Thanks. A very interesting article. They even went to the trouble to talk to Massad Ayoob and didn’t criticize him that much.

That web page had links to a couple other articles I read as well.

One was kind of a touching story of a woman (not really a ‘gun’ person) who, years after her father dies, claims his rifles and shoots them. If you want to rag on the author for not knowing much about guns there is this paragraph but all in all it was an interesting article.

The other gun was the .30-30, a Winchester 94 model with a serial number indicating it was manufactured in 1958. First made by Winchester Repeating Arms in 1894, the rifle was marketed as “smokeless,” one of the first mass-produced guns that didn’t require the owner to load black powder on his own, the way muzzle loaders did.

Read about the daughter inheriting her father’s guns here:

https://www.thetrace.org/2016/07/what-i-learned-inheriting-guns-arkansas/


The second article was an utterly goofy thing about a photographer that camps out at shooting ranges. If you buy her spiel she’ll whip up an old timey tintype photo of you right there with the catch that you have to use the tintype as a target. That is, you have to shoot a target that is a picture of you. This is supposed to provoke deep thoughts and make you think of guns in a different way.

Shrug.

Read about the photographer here:
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/arizona-civil-war-photography-gun-owners/