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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @04:42AM (3 children)
And yet China never has any mass murders using firearms. Australia hasn't had any where more than 5 did since the Port Arthur attack which left 35 dead.
You people keep making these unsubstantiated claims that gun regulations don't work and yet literally all the evidence we have says that it does. You can't completely prevent all violence, but we can cut it way down from where it currently is.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday November 09 2017, @05:18AM
What is with this sick obsession with guns instead of MASS MURDER [wikipedia.org]. Throw out the Port Arthur incident since it is such an outlier. Now look at that table and tell me you see a trend other than FEWER guns used to commit mass murder after that spike provided Prog politicians an excuse to do what they have wanted to do since Progs came into existence. Dead is dead, death by stabbing, being flattened to road pizza, etc. is just as dead. And note also that guns are still in the wrong hands, just no more guns in the right ones.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday November 09 2017, @06:24AM
Where it currently is, is at almost the lowest it's been in decades. We do not have a violent crime epidemic, no matter what your favorite talk show host might say.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @12:34PM
Obviously excluding the state sanctioned ones.