Notes from the Resistance...
The SAS estimates that American civilians own 393 million guns, ranking the U.S. number one in firearms per capita. [More]
As usual, the gun-grabbers are full of ...beans.
Unless no one owned guns before 1998...
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Note how the public-radio essay migrates from 'gun ownership' to 'gun deaths' with the implication that the first inexorably leads to the second.The reality? First off, "owners" actually PAID for the gun. But let's ignore the niceties and stip that the crime guns are legitimately 'owned.' Then there's the question of 'what is 'violence''? Is self-defense 'gun violence'? And then there's the hidden fact that 5% of the population perpetrate the VAST majority of said 'violence.'Propaganda Central is the other name of Public Radio.
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Both links are to the refutation, not the source of the bad claim.
ReplyDeleteNote how the public-radio essay migrates from 'gun ownership' to 'gun deaths' with the implication that the first inexorably leads to the second.
ReplyDeleteThe reality? First off, "owners" actually PAID for the gun. But let's ignore the niceties and stip that the crime guns are legitimately 'owned.'
Then there's the question of 'what is 'violence''? Is self-defense 'gun violence'?
And then there's the hidden fact that 5% of the population perpetrate the VAST majority of said 'violence.'
Propaganda Central is the other name of Public Radio.