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DonP

(6,185 posts)
6. Nah, Gun Owner Shaming is the only objective, not reality
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 12:22 PM
Mar 2016

If they actually cared about anything vaguely approaching reality or truth, they might actually want to know how many times a gun was involved in a defensive situation where no shots were fired and nobody died.

Then they would go to a number of unbiased sites like the CDC and others and when they find out that the number of DGU is like 20+ to 1 versus crimes, their whole narrative would go as flat as the "The CDC can't do any gun research" lie.

Gun control fans are big on supporting myths. But they have lots of "studies" and "research" to support their myths. Mostly funded by a racist Billionaire, but lots of "unbiased" studies proving the myths.

Another great myth they and their media bootlickers love. There were estimated to be 300 million guns in the US 20 years ago and that's pretty much the number they still use, even with record NICS checks every month. Unless they assume that firearm are like bananas and get old and thrown out at the rate of a million or so a month?

They do loves them some myths.

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Already posted Human101948 Mar 2016 #1
Thanks TeddyR Mar 2016 #3
It was canned in that other forum because it showed the Second in a good light.NT Eleanors38 Mar 2016 #28
Don't take a hatchet to a gun fight. NaturalHigh Mar 2016 #2
Is anybody keeping score? Nitram Mar 2016 #4
Thats the "shots fired/body count fallacy". beevul Mar 2016 #5
Nah, Gun Owner Shaming is the only objective, not reality DonP Mar 2016 #6
You loves your own myths... Human101948 Mar 2016 #8
what neither of those bloggers mention gejohnston Mar 2016 #10
The man is a fraud...there are no believable peer reviews... Human101948 Mar 2016 #11
I wasn't talking about Lott gejohnston Mar 2016 #12
It's easy to dismiss Lott's work... Human101948 Mar 2016 #13
...but not at all easy to dismiss Kleck's. I take it that's why you're focusing on Lott? friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #15
I doubt you read the study gejohnston Mar 2016 #18
+1. Eliding inconvenient facts is stock-in-trade for gun control advocates friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #14
Kleck sounds like a fraud as well... Human101948 Mar 2016 #16
According to an economist and an investment banker: friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #17
read Kleck's study gejohnston Mar 2016 #19
Only if Mother Jones reads it and somebody drafts a Cliff's Notes version DonP Mar 2016 #20
I doubt our interlocutor will be replying- chronic factose intolerance again... friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #21
They have their "Facts" and they cling to them like Gospel DonP Mar 2016 #22
Haha! Very clever! Human101948 Mar 2016 #26
You're the one that abandoned your declared academic standards when it suited you friendly_iconoclast Mar 2016 #29
Hard to reply to someone who knows it all... Human101948 Mar 2016 #25
Don't claim to know it all, just more than you DonP Mar 2016 #27
Nothing wrong with counting. Try it. nm Eleanors38 Mar 2016 #7
We don't need no stinkin' facts! Nitram Mar 2016 #9
Stupid hurts. ileus Mar 2016 #23
Is carrying a hatchet legal? discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2016 #24
Sure it is legal. ManiacJoe Mar 2016 #30
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