Can you be a Progressive Democrat and still the support the Second Amendment?

[pablo_marmol]

18. As GE has mentioned, UBCs can only aspire to create very slight improvement.

Liberal criminologists James Wright and Peter Rossi discovered that criminals with felonies obtain guns from licensed dealing in 1 of 6 cases. (in-depth prison interviews/survey) The vast majority of crime guns are obtained on the street or via straw purchases.

Edited to add: In fairness, it is possible that criminals without felony convictions behave significantly differently that hardened criminals, to the detriment of the survey's accuracy. It's hard for me to imagine, however, that this potential flaw completely invalidates survey findings.

Their book 'Armed and Considered Dangerous' deserves to be a must-read for all who insert themselves into the gun violence debate, particularly gun restriction supporters. But of course this issue is the only one (as far as I can tell) where "progressives" give themselves permission to ignore the verdict of empirical evidence.