"Just wondering , so how does a small woman protect herself from a large man ?"
"I think she is supposed to either scratch at him with her keys , or spray them with hairspray . I am sure we will se a lot more pages like the above linked in the near future . Now that Lotts research has been given the green light by the NAS , in fact , being the only body of research with which they found NO issues ( oddly enough , the anti gunners research was FULL of holes ) , there is nothing left to attack him on , and his work has been vindicated . So , lacking any real material with which to attack his actual work , the anti gunners are essentially stepping back and calling him a `` dummy head `` . In todays modern political/academic environment , what higher form of flattery can there possibly be than charachter assasination ? It is what they fall back on when they find your argument to be irrefutable . The NAS study was supposed to be `` their study `` . Instead the findings basically run that anti gun researchers are mostly liars who use HIGHLY questionable methodology , pro gun researchers are refreshingly honest , and at the end of the day , the pro gunners have won the war of statistics . It is over , there is really no point to debating it anymore . We have seen the most scritinized review of the available data EVER , and the antigunners have had the wind knocked out of their sails . Until some new data becomes available , I am pretty much done debating the statistical aspects . You want to call Lott a cross dressing dummyhead who was more than a little creepy as far as his defense of his work ? go ahead . The fact remains that despite the anti gunners best efforts ( which currnetly seems to be Donohue and Ayres ) , his work has been vindicated . Now , if there is any anti gunner out there who dares argue history in regards to this , lets go ! As Bryan pointed out in another thread , the antis generally seem to feel weakest in their argument when it comes to history , while the pro gunners seem to feel weakest when it comes to the social costs of gun ownership . GOOD NEWS for the pro gunners , we are now strongest in not only history , but the social aspects of gun control as well . We now know for sure that the antis gunners are living in lala land . Their argument is completely unsupportable ."
"so how does a small woman protect herself from a large man ?"
"I think she is supposed to either scratch at him with her keys , or spray them with hairspray"