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Incendiary Image of the Day (Take 2): “If They Can Make Up Stats So Can We” Edition

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The Answer to Domestic Violence (courtesy Chip Kerr for The Truth About Guns)

And once again a TTAG reader has taken it upon himself to fight fire with fire. “If they can make up their own statistics,” Chip K writes, referring to the unattributed anti-gun agit-prop propagated by Demand Action to End Gun Violence, “then there is no reason I can’t do the same.” Ah but—readers familiar with Foucault’s Pendulum will wonder if the stat is as made up as Agent K thinks it is. Anyway, “Because a restraining order is just a piece of paper” is genius. Nice work Chip.

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. Nice; broadcasts a more favorable fact based message than the “Demand Action” poster does.

    Now if only we were able to benefit from the same distribution support the grabbers have at their disposal compliments of Bloomberg and the MSM.

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  2. McAuliffe is on record wanting magazine limits, AWB, and restricting your right to purchase a gun to 1 gun per month. I’m sure the AWB would include registration of some kind like in California. I just moved to Virginia and thought it would be gun friendly. After all, they allow open carry for God’s sake. However, if this guy gets in… I’m going to be looking hard at packing up and heading to Texas. Especially if they implement an Assault Weapons Ban. Anyone the Clintons and Bloomy are behind I am against. Stand up VA and get to the polls.

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  3. I say that also having used the binocular types, which felt too restrictive. Light conditions change throughout the battlespace, and there are certain things that are easier to see with the naked eye and vice versa.

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  4. I think you need some changes to the punctuation…

    ” In states that have concealed carry laws for every gun sale, ”
    … which states tie a gun sale to concealed carry by law? it almost sounds like you HAVE to obtain or have CC to buy a gun… or that if you buy a gun you’re required to obtain CC status somehow.

    ” In states that have concealed carry laws; for every gun sale, ”
    … this makes the ccl ‘fact’ of the state merely a preamble for the statistic about to be quoted.

    dropping the semi-colon makes it unclear, regardless of the font used.

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  5. I just realize I made a mistake. It should have been Chicago has 73% fewer murders than California, yet 4 times the murder rate (Chicago: 516 murders, California: 1884, or 19.1 per 100k versus 5.0 per 100k ) I can both say there were fewer murders in Chicago and Chicago has a much higher murder rate. Saying “fewer” means nothing without any sense of proportion

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  6. I hear the real story was that the cop left his gun on his motorcycle while he was playing with the kids. One of the children grabbed the gun off the bike and fired a round into the ground. The kids near by got some shrapnel wounds.

    Teach your kids not to play with guns people. Stop acting like you are not responsible for teaching your kids not to be stupid.

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  7. .38 is a nice caliber, but if you’re going to fabricate statistics, I’d be more impressed with 44% or 45%. Just sayin’…..

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  8. That first video looks like a skit from the Benny Hill Show.

    One year I dressed up as the Engineer from Team Fortress 2. This worked out well for 2 reasons: 1, I actually AM an Engineer (at the time I was an engineering major), and 2, It allowed me to tuck my fully loaded CZ 82 into my work belt and no one even thought twice about it.

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