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: 3, Insightful) by mhajicek on Thursday November 09 2017, @06:53AM (4 children)
What would it take for there to be no guns? Besides going door to door and taking them by force, murdering anyone who won't comply, you'd also have to kill anyone and everyone with any machining or manufacturing ability. In every foreign nation with strict gun control there is a booming black market for guns. Some are hand made with little more than a drill and a file. You can make one in less than half an hour from common hardware store parts.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:07AM (2 children)
Citation needed.
(97% of the cases with no citation to a statistic are bullshit! grin).
Stop spewing phrases without backing them up with data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:19AM (1 child)
You need me to teach you how to use Google?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:55AM
Your claim, your duty to provide evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by jimtheowl on Thursday November 09 2017, @07:27PM
Are you saying that since i its not possible to do one impossible thing, it is not possible to do anything?