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from the anthropogenic-population-change dept.
We have a recent report by the US government that climate change is almost certainly caused by humans. However, we don't have the same rigor in gun death statistics; instead policy debate can rely only on FBI crime statistics which aren't directly comparable year-over-year due to changing measurement methodology (see "Caution to users").
This is because the NRA put pressure on the CDC through a Republican Congress to halt this research, under the logic that it promotes the cause of gun control.
But how likely is it that this is intentional, to use the US Second Amendment as an ongoing lightning rod for public attention (in a "bread and circuses" sense) while political business continues as usual on the back end (e.g. Paradise Papers)? Obama and a Democratic congress had the opportunity to restart this, which would presumably be just as "common sense" as the actual reforms they have been promoting on this issue, since whoever was actually supported by the facts would presumably have a motivation to set the program back in motion to improve support for their proposals.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @03:48AM (3 children)
> how many NRA members go out and mass murder. Hint: zero. Nada. Zip.
We know this because Chris Cox, the executive director of the NRA’s lobbying arm [cnsnews.com] said it on Fox News.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by jmorris on Thursday November 09 2017, @04:07AM (2 children)
No moron, we know it is true because if ONE member of the NRA were to ever do a mass murder the media would make damned sure every person on the planet knew. They media have not done so therefore it hasn't happened. q.e.d.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by number11 on Thursday November 09 2017, @04:24AM
Most people who own guns don't see any reason to waste their money sending it to the NRA. I have no idea if any NRA members have become mass murderers (I suspect the NRA would erase any record of their membership as fast as possible), but I suspect it shouldn't be hard to find some have become individual murderers. Hell, give me a copy of the membership list, and I'll do the research.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @04:36AM
The NRA is ultimately responsible. Those bumpstocks and assault weapons will never be illegal because if we did something effective about gun violence it would make it hard for them to fund-raise and they'd have to actually make a valid argument about why people need guns in the first place.
The kinds of weapons that people use for hunting place a limit on how many people can be killed in a mass shooting. It's why most other countries with strict gun control laws don't have mass shootings on this scale. And for there to be more than one in a given year is completely unprecedented elsewhere.
People like you are ultimately responsible for arming these psychos and yet, you're too damned ignorant to see the connection between the weapons and the violence. We literally lose as many people in 3 months as we did in 9/11 and we can't get even modest gun control regulation because people like you don't give a crap about the consequences.