“After the 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., people across the country went out and bought guns,” npr.org reports. “A study published Thursday concludes that a subsequent increase in gun exposure led to more accidental firearm deaths than otherwise would have occurred in the months after the school shooting.” Sixty more, in fact . . .
More spree killings -> more calls for gun control -> more gun sales -> more death! In the words of the study’s author, Wellesley College Economics professor Phillip Levine, “Introducing unsuccessful gun control legislation isn’t necessarily helping. It may be hurting.”
Notice how the good Professor leaves the door open to the possibility of positive benefits for “successful” gun control legislation. And weasels on his own anti-gun control conclusion: “It may be hurting.”
Be that as it is, aside from papers prepared by John “More Stats, More Glazed Eyes” Lott, every study on “gun violence” leads to the conclusion that gun control is a good thing, not a bad thing. And that more of it would be a good thing, not a bad thing.
Given their obvious bias, faulty logic and unsupportable conclusions, the anti-gun rights eggheads seem to be divorced from reality. True story? Are they insane?
Yes
YES.
They know which side their bread is buttered on. They do their masters’ bidding.
It’s the same self-serving pseudoscience out of academia as with the so-called anthropogenic global warming. (Although, when it became obvious facts didn’t support that, they switched labels to the infinitely elastic “climate change”.)
Anytime you have some massive, unwieldy issue that does not lend itself to tidy and conclusive assessment through personal assessment, then you’re going to have highly educated partisans cooking the books and publishing inponderably dense studies alleging to prove their side.
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Hold him down and give him a pink belly. The turd deserves it.
I’ll bet some of the same people predicted Clinton would win the election too!
I just did a CDC WONDER query on mortality statistics for 2010 through 2015, and found that accidental firearm deaths continued to decline in 2013 & 2014. They did blip upwards in 2015, but not even back up to 2013 levels. In fact, the decline for 2013 and 2014 almost exactly matches the rate of decline that already existed in 2012, and exceeded the rate of decline in 2011.
In other words, they must have pulled some nifty statistical tricks to take a decline in accidental firearm deaths after an increase in gun sales, and turn it around 180 degrees.
So moron the solution isn’t to keep guns away from law abiding Americans, its to eradicate ISIS. To start with don’t let any more come to American.
Isn’t this the same woman who said the NRA doesn’t want people to have machine guns and that
Bump stocks should be banned?
Seems like this old hag should fade from public view.
Say what now?
OK… OK. Let’s just fight crazy with crazy. We get national reciprocity but anyone who carries a firearm on them is also required to carry a piece of bacon.
PRESTO! No ISIS extremist will carry! See? Laws fix everything.
My $50 RR is still going, about 400 rounds thru it. Used it just last week to dispatch a rat under my shed. Used CCI .22 mag rat shot. One shot, bye, bye rat. Most of the time it’s in my “bug out”, “get home bag” when not on my hip while Jeeping. Great value and I don’t have to baby it, because it’s a tool, not a safe queen. I normally have 3 CCI rat shot and 3 hp’s loaded in it.
Are they looking to distribute in the UK at all?
Wait… ISIS has a magazine???
My friend, Sydney, in Chireno, Texas popped a sow this weekend from horseback with her 9mm 1911.
https://image.ibb.co/j4LV5G/sydney.jpg
“Our lives are irreparably damaged!” *
*(…but a pity payday of a couple million bucks could dry a lot of tears.)
“It has its roots all the way back to Vietnam, they WERE trying to design the world’s greatest killing machine. ” Really an M16 the world’s greatest killing machine? ICBM vs. M16, and the winner is,. ,,,,,,,,,,,
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Human beings have been hard-wired for violence since our species first evolved. Read Desmond Morris’s “The Naked Ape” sometime to get the full explanation. Since humans had such poor natural weapons (no real teeth, no claws and a puny musculature, compared with other animals out there on the plain), they had to evolve their brains to develop weapons to make up for their natural deficiencies, and they had to be aggressive to drive off animals that wanted to eat them, as well as other humans who wanted to monopolize food sources, mates, and other resources. No matter how gentle a person claims to be, that hard-wiring is still there and, unless suppressed by civilizing notions, will come out when needed (as when one is attacked). Those that fail to resist (or can’t) die and “survival of the fittest” ensures that the survivors are the most robust members of our species. Today civilization neuters a lot of basic impulses in humans, but it’s all still there, violence-oriented games or not.
It is all fake news.
Sounds like a good excuse to sue this casino for battery. Exposing costumers to microwaves is hardly a non harmful or noninvasive way to conduct a search. If they can’t detain you and search you without reasonable cause, what gives them the right to expose you to potentially harmful microwaves? Cancer risk!