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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: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 09 2017, @07:18AM (3 children)
You surely can back up that claim with hard data? (And no, a few examples of where tyrannical governments indeed did that is not sufficient for it. To validate your claim, you have to consider all tyrannical governments that ever have done ethic cleansing).
And even if that should be the case, it doesn't imply gun control as such being bad. For example, since the mass media existed, any tyrannical government talked to the people through them on them, and that was indeed a big part of their strategy of staying in power and manipulating the people. Does that mean politicians talking to the people through mass media is inherently evil, and necessarily leads to tyranny?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by mhajicek on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:42AM (2 children)
Surely you can come up with a counter example then.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:47AM (1 child)
It is you who made the claim, thus it is your job to provide proper evidence.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0, Troll) by mhajicek on Thursday November 09 2017, @08:56AM
Okay, here it is: Google.com
Or you could study history.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek