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	Josh Sugarmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Josh Sugarmann is the executive director and founder of the Violence Policy Center.
		Sugarmann is credited with first coining the term "assault weapon", which is derived from the designation Sturmgewehr 44 (Storm Rifle or alternately assault rifle), a German rifle made in World War II.
		Sugarmann has written two books: Every Handgun is Aimed at You: A Case for Banning Handguns, and ''National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower and Fear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josh_Sugarmann (276 words)

	The Dartmouth Review: Handguns: Fighting for Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sugarmann argues that, since handguns are readily available (nevermind that earlier he called handgun owners a dwindling market and small minority), suicidal individuals can act on impulse.
		Sugarmann claims that historians have ‘all but unanimously come down in favor of an interpretation that the amendment was created to protect state-organized militias rather than guarantee and individual right to own a firearm.’ Historical anecdotes, however, point otherwise.
		Sugarmann furthers his argument by claiming that handguns were not as great a part of American history as is commonly believed.
	www.dartreview.com /archives/2002/04/01/handguns_fighting_for_freedom.php (1123 words)

	Amazon.fr : Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns: Livres en anglais: Josh Sugarmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sugarmann emphasizes, for instance, the correlation between the availability of guns and suicide rates.
		Sugarmann criticizes gun manufacturers and distributors for marketing campaigns that target not only women on the benefits of gun ownership for self-defense (a statistically unfounded argument, he claims) but also minorities (with bluntly racist overtones)--both groups have lower handgun ownership rates than white males.
		Sugarmann (National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower, and Fear), executive director of the Violence Policy Center, argues forcefully here that handguns, with or without licenses or safety features, have and will continue to have an extremely dangerous impact on United States, society.
	www.amazon.fr /Every-Handgun-Aimed-You-Handguns/dp/156584629X (657 words)

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		David Hardy Debate at Utah State University Date: 12 Oct 95 15:07:06 MDT A debate over gun control between Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center and David Hardy, a Tuscon, AZ attorney was held today at Utah State University as part of the USU Arts and Lectures series.
		Sugarmann kept calling the NRA a "trade organization" and tried to assert that they advocated "selling guns to criminals".
		Sugarmann seemed obsessed with the gun trade, and tried again and again to suggest that guns are consumer items (he compared them to toasters) and should be regulated.
	www.hoboes.com /pub/Firearms/Books%20and%20News/Sugarmann%20v.%20Hardy%20Debate (644 words)

	Amazon.com: Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns: Books: Josh Sugarmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Josh Sugarman is the most influentual force within the gun prohibition movement and has invented some of its most ingenious and effective sound bites.
		Sugarmann fails to tell you is that the police will be bringing their handguns into your little gun free zone and, according to him, they'll be aiming their handguns at YOU!
		Sugarmann further advises you, the reader, that if you visit a friend's or a family's home, to ask if they keep any guns in their home.
	www.amazon.com /Every-Handgun-Aimed-You-Handguns/dp/156584629X (3032 words)

	SHOOTING BLIND (EXPOSES MEDIA BIASNESS) [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sugarmann, now executive director of the Violence Policy Center, could rely on the public's continuing confusion because he knew he would have the help of the nation's leading news organizations.
		Although the label is quite elastic, it is for the most part these high-techlooking guns that Sugarmann and other gun prohibitionists call "semi-automatic assault weapons." But the hallmark of an assault rifle is a switch that allows the gun to be fired automatically or semi-automatically.
		Newsweek helped launch the "assault weapon" scare three years before Sugarmann's report with a 1985 cover story titled, "Machine Gun USA." While the article acknowl edged the difference between semi-automatics and machine guns, it implied that the former could be converted into the latter so easily that the difference was of little significance.
	www.pimaarms.com /2ndAmend4.html (3364 words)

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		The Josh Sugarmanns of the world can see only one way to persuade women that guns are bad.
		With the magical, mystical powers possessed only by the firearms industry, having thus (falsely, as Josh would have it) empowered our poor sister, she suddenly turns into Thelma and Louise on a very bad day and endangers herself, her children, and every living thing within a 50 mile radius.
		Which kind of wrecks the Sugarmann premise that manufacturers are only picking on women because their other markets have stultified.
	www.ccrkba.org /pub/rkba/women-guns/e0295p.txt (1102 words)

	The Dartmouth Review: Handguns: Fighting for Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In his discussion of suicide, Sugarmann points out that six out of ten Americans who kill themselves use a firearm--of the 17,566 firearm suicides, 3,519 involved handguns.
		Sugarmann moves on to 'Handguns and Criminals,' claiming that handguns are the most common weapon used by criminals when committing violent crimes.
		According to gun writer Christ Bird, 'A handgun is the hardest firearm to shoot accurately.' Thus, Sugarmann concludes that handguns are ineffective against stopping crime.
	www.dartreview.com /archives/000816.php (1122 words)

	Violence Policy Center Contradicts Gore - by Dr. Michael S. Brown
		This could be a cold political calculation involving the number of gun owners who are angered by his position, but it may have resulted from an ideological split in the anti-gun lobby.
		The Violence Policy Center is one of the most virulent anti-gun organizations in existence and VPC Director Josh Sugarmann is one of the most talented propagandists of our time.
		Sugarmann and his small team of associates are funded by enormous grants from liberal foundations.
	www.sierratimes.com /archive/stopeds/edmsb092600.htm (981 words)

	From the Editor
		Sugarmann goes on to explain that only a total ban on civilian ownership of guns, such as enacted in Britain and Australia (he forgets to point out, failing pretty miserably either as crime control or as examples of government competence), is the solution to the problem.
		Sugarmann doesn’t even look at his solution as it is being implemented in this country.
		But I’m willing to bet Josh right now—say $50 worth of the new Sacajawea dollars—that it will not take a rocket scientist to find an SKS in California after the government is done protecting themselves from its law-abiding citizens.
	www.saf.org /pub/rkba/women-guns/wg000102pt.html (824 words)

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		Sugarmann's attempt to spin his concession in favor of a complete ban on handguns and centerfire rifles drew a quick rebuke from Gottlieb, however.
		"When Josh Sugarmann argues that the only way to stop criminal misuse of firearms is to tear up the Constitution and trample the firearms rights of millions of law-abiding Americans, it just proves how far out of the mainstream his extremist views really are," Gottlieb said.
		"But that seems to be okay with Josh Sugarmann," Gottlieb continued, "because it's better for his campaign of gun-owner hatred to be able to parade a string of corpses than to have honest citizens successfully defending themselves against the kind of lunatics that Sugarmann's anti-self defense policies encourage."
	www.ccrkba.org /pub/rkba/press-releases/Sugarmann.htm (502 words)

	Semi-automatic firearm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As early as September 1988, Josh Sugarmann, gun-control activist and executive director of the Violence Policy Center, coined the term assault weapon to denote various semi-automatic firearms with features commonly associated with firearms used by military and/or law enforcement personnel.
		Sugarmann adopted the "assault weapon" label from the Sturmgewehr 44, a German military rifle used during World War II; Sturmgewehr translates into English as either "Storm Rifle" or "Assault Rifle." Note that this term is not synonymous with assault rifle, which has an established technical definition and refers only to military rifles with full-automatic capability.
		Today, there is still no exact or universal definition for the term "assault weapon," although the term has gained significant popularity among gun-control advocates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Self-loading (1091 words)

	First Monday and Every Monday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Contributed by Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington D.C. From time to time we like to provide our subscribers with thoughtful commentaries from other people in the field.
		This weeks First Monday is contributed by Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C..
		Sugarmann is one of the nations most highly regarded experts on gun control and the author of two books, “Every Handgun is Aimed at You”, and “National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower, and Fear.”
	www.ipgv.org /FMpriceoffreedom.html (564 words)

	immediacy: National Rifle Association:Money, Firepower, and Fear
		Josh Sugarmann's book isn't exactly useful as a debate tool for either side of the gun control debate, because he's as damning of the organized gun control organizations as he is of the NRA and the gun lobby (which Sugarmann shows to be virtually synonymous).
		Sugarmann, who himself is a gun control advocate with the Violence Policy Center, thinks that "the truth lies somewhere in the middle" of the debate, and that the average American should beware of the fanatics on both sides who misuse and misconstrue the evidence of violence in our society for their own agendas.
		He does this by giving us the history of the National Rifle Association, which is also the history of gun control in America, and shows how the organization has shifted over the years from a sporting idea to "Second Amendment fundamentalism" that characterizes it today.
	www.engel-cox.org /text/national_rifle_associationmone.html (942 words)

	BOOK REVIEW : Every Handgun is Aimed at You : The Case for Banning Handguns - THR
		LaPierre, of course, is VP of the NRA, and Sugarmann is (was?) the executive director for the VPC, perhaps the most spastically vocal of the anti-gun groups.
		The broadest definition of a handgun is a firearm specifically designed and built to be fired with one hand...Action heroes in movies and television are often shown using two hands in their make-believe gunfights.
		In another fairly strange turn, Sugarmann gives statistics that seem to indicate bans will not work - 27 percent of prisoners surveyed bought their handguns over the counter in a gun shop, while 31 percent got them from friends/family, 28 percent from an illegal source, and 9 percent stole their guns.
	www.thehighroad.org /showthread.php?t=62351&goto=nextnewest (1441 words)

	Gun Bans Bomb - FreeConservatives
		Sugarmann: No, stupid, it's not the guns because guns don't think and act independently.
		I suppose it would be fruitless to remind Sugarmann that Washington, D.C., already has a complete handgun ban.
		The ex-trooper said, according to FBI figures, in 1997, 1.2 million persons reported (that's key because not all persons "report" such incidents) protecting themselves simply by brandishing or displaying a weapon; in 1998 the figure rose to 1.5 million; in 1999, 2 million.
	www.freeconservatives.com /vb/showthread.php?t=1338 (1112 words)

	The View From North Central Idaho - Quote of the day--Josh Sugarmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just as important, it must be understood that the emotional factors that drive suicide can be all too easily turned outward on friends, family, co-workers, and complete strangers because of the unmatched lethality of firearms.
		Every major murder-suicide study ever conducted has shown that a firearm—with its unmatched combination of lethality and availability—is the weapon most often used to murder the victims, with the offenders then turning the gun on themselves.
		Sugarmann didn't include murder-suicide studies done in Japan in his review of papers.
	blog.joehuffman.org /2005/02/08/Quote+Of+The+DayJosh+Sugarmann.aspx (167 words)

	The price of freedom': More bodies (Josh Sugarmann VPC ALERT!!!!!) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Josh Sugarmann is rather imfamous among most 2a activists.
		Sugarmann salivates for the day when someone uses a.50 cal in a crime.
		Or maybe he thinks the police should be disarmed since the guns used in the MN incident were stolen from a policeman and then used to kill him.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1380580/posts (3241 words)

	Salon.com politics \| Pro-gun hackers take over Web site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Josh Sugarmann, VPC's executive director, figured the site could be restored in a matter of hours, and refrained from trying to fix the site in order to "leave the crime scene untouched" for the FBI.
		So until Sugarmann finds out how to wrest control away from them, the hackers are masters of the group's domain.
		Then, in more bad news, the FBI told Sugarmann that the hacking doesn't become a blip on the FBI's radar screen until the group can prove it has incurred $5,000 in damages -- a serious hurdle for a nonprofit organization, because its losses are largely confined to the labor required to fix the hacking mess.
	archive.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/06/21/guns/index.html (751 words)

	Op-Ed: Can You Still Get An FFL? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Josh Sugarmann began making his place in this debate as an employee of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns.
		Sugarmann is a smart man. But a review of his study suggests that he picked up some of his ideas from 'friends' of the gun movement.
		Sugarmann begins a discussion of "the kitchen table dealers." He talks about the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of firearms.
	www.gunowners.org /op9509.htm (2050 words)

	The New Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Josh Sugarmann makes the convincing case that the only way to reduce gun violence is to ban handguns completely.
		In this must-read book for anyone interested in the gun debates, Sugarmann includes a brief history of the handgun, an analysis of handgun ownership, and a review of the Second Amendment debate.
		Josh Sugarmann is executive director of the Violence Policy Center, a national educational organization working to reduce gun death and injury in America.
	www.thenewpress.com /educat/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1075 (359 words)

	One nation, under the gun - Salon
		The best that activists can do is to focus on what gun-control advocate Josh Sugarmann calls "discrete issues" and incremental change.
		Sugarmann, the author of "Every Handgun Is Aimed at You," is the executive director of
		Sugarmann, talking with Salon from his office in Washington, spoke about the power of the gun industry, the impact of the sniper shootings on the gun-control debate, the Bush administration and the NRA, and one of the best places to investigate the gun industry's impact on youth: your local 7-Eleven.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2002/11/01/guns/index.html (758 words)

	Anti-gun -- and anti-rights as well [Free Republic]
		Even Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, says trigger locks are not the answer.
		Of course, his logic veers to the left from there, deducing that if gun manufacturers actually produce "smart guns" that can only be fired by the owners, then more non-gun owners might buy them.
		That, in Sugarmann's mind, would be a terrible, terrible thing because everyone `knows' that guns are the problem, not the minuscule number of people who misuse them.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38c8f74312ef.htm (1125 words)

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		Josh Sugarmann, Director of the Violence Policy Center, is famous for originating virtually all of the gun prohibition strategy - the "cop killer bullet," "undetectable plastic gun," and "assault weapon" campaigns.
		Most knowledgable activists know that Sugarmann's campaigns are ALWAYS based on deception.
		Reflect upon Sugarmann's words: The semiautomatic weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semiautomatic assault weapons - anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun - can only increase that chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.
	www.rkba.org /orgs/dipr/vpc-women (878 words)

	Press Releases
		Too often, gun control advocates walk into the trap and concede that values like democracy and independence must be sacrificed to fight gun crime.
		Protecting vigilantes from criminal prosecution and urging citizens to stockpile weapons for a showdown with the government are more than just threats to public safety -- they are threats to our democracy and our way of life.
		Josh Horwitz is executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, a non-profit advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence was founded in 1975 and is composed of 45 civic, professional and religious organizations and 100,000 individual members working to reduce gun violence.
	www.csgv.org /news/news_releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=108 (807 words)

	The View From North Central Idaho - The distortions of Josh Sugarmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sugarmann has a post about how terrible the NRA and their lapdogs in the U.S. House are.
		In this post he keeps talking about "guns traced to crime". Don't think that slightly odd wording wasn't given very careful thought by Sugarmann. It implies "guns used in the commission of a crime" but that isn't what is being discussed.
		Sugarmann knows this and deliberately misleads the ignorant.
	blog.joehuffman.org /2006/06/28/The+Distortions+Of+Josh+Sugarmann.aspx (250 words)

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