“Upward trends in firearm purchasing, violence and political extremism are converging to put the USA at risk for disaster in the months ahead,” Garen Wintemute warned in introducing the report. “We have no time to waste if we are to prevent the loss of thousands of lives and emerge with our democracy intact.” [More]
The Hero of Medicine sounds the alarm!
Forget that the ones committing the violence aren't the ones upping the retail gun purchase numbers. And forget that if the people being smeared as "the greatest domestic terror threat" really were, it really would be "a war zone out there."
If "disaster" comes, my money's on a Reichstag fire ignited by embedded provocateurs.
[Via Remarks]
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Hero of medicine
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geroy meditsiny
As Michael Crichton called it, a "wet streets cause rain" story.
Violent crime is up. Gun purchases are up. There's correlation there. Therefore the collectivist conclusion is that gun purchases are driving violent crime. (More generically, the thing they don't like is driving an issue they can leverage for more control.)
No thought given to the very real possibility that rising violent crime is causing more people to purchase guns for their protection (i.e. they have cause and effect reversed). Or that "defund the police" might be a bigger cause of the uptick in crime (i.e. external factors driving the increase).
Similarly, no consideration that the lack of newly-purchased guns and new gun owners in the "suspect" lists pretty much disproves their conclusion all by itself. And if that weren't enough, CCW permit applications are also increasing, and yet CCW permit holders remain one of the most law-abiding groups in the nation (even more law-abiding than police!).
Nope. Gun purchases are up, and violent crime is up, therefore gun purchase are causing crime. Nothing else to see here.
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