Mr Khan said:
mrstickball said:
Kasz216 said:
By the way, my gun stance is based solely on having evaluated the different studies regarding it and finding which studies were more flawed.
I could give a damn about gun ownership, I don't plan to own one, and I don't really think the right to bear arms is going to help overthrow the government until the average citizen can afford their own airfield and Jet Fighter.
Never fired a gun, don't want to.
It's worth noting, most crimes are committed by people you know... so these are people who will likely know if you own a gun or not. |
I'm more or less of the same stance - I don't own a gun myself. Although my brother does and I love to shoot for leisure on his dime (since ownership is pretty expensive). The data available that discusses gun ownership and crime is very sound and impossible to refute.
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I had read that the data was quite shoddy, based upon questions like "how many times have you defended yourself with a gun in the last 10 years," and that a lot of data on crime-prevention statistics comes from decades ago, when crime levels were naturally higher.
Found that in an op-ed somewhere after the Aurora shooting.
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Actually, my data came from the Brady Foundation - America's premier anti-gun group. Their Brady Score directly correlates with murders in America. That is, the more the Brady foundation approves of regulations, the more murders occur.
