Mr Khan said:
Because the NRA isn't frantically trying to justify the 40-something shootings on the South Side of Chicago? The Black community has made efforts against black-on-black violence, but what it really amounts to in the end is poverty. In this case there's an element of preventability if Florida wasn't trying to make itself into the mythic version of the Old West (because hey, in the actual Old West, you had to check your rifles at the entrance to town. Back then they had this crazy idea that guns killed people). |
You know better then to try and use one instance as an excuse to justify a political position.
Additionally, interestingly poverty rates and crime rates don't seem to correlate as much as you would think.
Additionally, since ruled unconstitutional... shootings have gone down in Chicago and Washington DC... although to me it looks like gun ownership seems to have had no effect on any of it in general.
The data seems greatly against your point. Would this kid have not been shot? Maybe, maybe not, and perhaps someone somewhere else gets shot because of lack of gun ownership.
All in all it seems pretty unrelated if you go based on the rational data, and likely the NRA is only trying to defend it, because people are bringing it up despite their not really being a legitamite reason for this to be so.
It really seems like a moot point.
