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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @05:34AM (3 children)
The US is ALREADY in a state of tyrrany in case you have not noticed ...
How about looking at history. In Nazi Germany days, there were laws passed to prevent Jews from owning guns. Look how that worked out ...
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_legislation_in_Germany [wikipedia.org]
"The 1938 Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons, which came into force the day after Kristallnacht,[10][11] effectively deprived all Jews living under the Third Reich of the right to possess any form of weapons, including truncheons, knives, firearms and ammunition.[12] Before that, some police forces used the pre-existing "trustworthiness" clause to disarm Jews on the basis that "the Jewish population 'cannot be regarded as trustworthy'"."
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:38AM (2 children)
Yes, that was a discriminatory law, and as such a clear sign that the Nazis were going against the Jews (not that this was any secret at that point in time).
Note that Jews were also forbidden to spit on the street. Do I have to conclude that spitting on the street is necessary to prevent a Holocaust?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday November 09 2017, @02:22PM (1 child)
Haven't you heard? Diversity isn't good:
https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-call-to-end-the-diversity-visa-has-nothing-to-do-with-national-security/ [thenation.com]
Note: that's the Nation, not the Onion.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @05:02PM
I really feel for the people of the Onion. The real news these days is so surreal, how do they satire it?