Common Republican Gun Lies

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* Stronger gun control laws will do nothing to curb mass killings
* Chicago is the murder capital of the USA
* It is too soon to talk about gun legislation
* Gun laws on the books aren't being enforced

Feel free to add more.

[Kingofalldems]

1. Look out below, here they come!

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2. You can be killed by other means

Knives cars etc.

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3. good one

[JHan]

4. the solution to gun violence is more guns..

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5. another good one

[JHan]

6. the best though:

Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

it's so dumb.. it's SO intellectually lazy... When I deconstruct it to a gun nut, you can see their eyes glaze over...

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7. yup

[Igel]

8. Does "murder capital" require per capita or just absolute number of murders?

Just by guns or including other means?

If it's not clear what the requirements are, anybody can use reasonable ones to make a claim.

But it's also difficult to rebut such a claim.

By one measure, Chicago is the murder capital. By another, St. Louis. That's if we just look at larger cities. If we make some kind of weighted average, perhaps Baltimore wins.

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9. Populations

St Louis 312,000
Chicago 2,700,000

What's the debate?
Of course you go by per capita.

[Lars39]

10. About the last one...

I think Nevada’s AG has been refusing to enforce universal background checks, iirc.