Largest Gun Study Ever: More Guns, More Murder

[DanTex]

88. That's another discussion.

There's been no shortage of discussions on gun policy here at DU recently. But this OP simply presented a study published in a major peer-reviewed journal, which was consistent with previous findings in the area, and I'm simply pointing out that the responses from the pro-gun crowd are disappointing if not surprising:
--Slandering the author
--Unsubstantiated accusations of "bias"
--One person claims to find an "error" that wasn't even part of the study
--Another who obviously doesn't understand the methods summarily dismisses them as "tripe"
--Etc.

My point is that an intelligent discussion of gun policy is difficult to have with people with such a low regard for facts and scientific research. The problem goes beyond guns -- probably the biggest area of denialism in politics right now is climate change. However, I might have hoped that a Democratic message board wouldn't sink to the same levels of celebrated ignorance and anti-intellectualism.