US gun culture is 'corrupting the world,' Australia ex-deputy PM says after Okla. slaying

[DanTex]

66. How about "hands and fists" versus "guns"? Have you looked that one up?

An essential part of progressive thought is believing in logic in science, which in this case means owning up to the fact that our homicide rate is multiple times higher than any other wealthy country, the difference being almost entirely due to guns.

By now most DUers I'm sure are familiar with the false/misleading talking points that you are repeating verbatim from the NRA website (70% of homicides committed by people with felony records? Not sure what the point of that statistic is, but I'm wondering, did you just make that number up?).

I wonder if even you actually believe the whole "culture war" line. Does it ever occur to you that maybe all of the social scientists and epidemiologists who have for decades pointed out that America's (lack of) gun laws are costing tens of thousands of lives a year might be onto something? Month after month, the victims of gun violence pile up in the US, whereas in Canada, UK, Australia, you name it, the've pretty much solved this problem.