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14. then there's this..

Wed Sep 18, 2013, 07:11 PM

Sep 2013

And since the gun industries have lobbied congress to stop collection of gun statistics at the federal level

Apparently the CDC, FBI, and BJS haven't received that memo (and I'm sure there are 10 other agencies I am not mentioning)..

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/26/1219171/-President-Obama-orders-CDC-to-assess-research-on-gun-violence

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?iid=4616&ty=pbdetail

Looks like a whole lot o'law breakin goin on or maybe you are repeating talking points which are demonstrably false?

Further, only an idiot could look at the stats and state "more guns = more murder" because again, the actual numbers falsify that single statement completely..

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Think Progress: Largest Gun Study Ever: More Guns, More Murder [View all] Botany Sep 2013 OP

Two questions pipoman Sep 2013 #1

Did you read the study? mikeysnot Sep 2013 #2

scanned it a couple of times pipoman Sep 2013 #3

Reading is fundamental! mikeysnot Sep 2013 #6

If you notice pipoman Sep 2013 #9

It is a university study.. reading and understanding is fundamental! mikeysnot Sep 2013 #11

Do you really not know pipoman Sep 2013 #12

then there's this.. pipoman Sep 2013 #14

You can be assured it wasn't the NRA etherealtruth Sep 2013 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Robb Sep 2013 #13

what matters to me is that the study was peer reviewed science Botany Sep 2013 #15

Do you have a link to the actual study? hack89 Sep 2013 #4

So perhaps we should wait until we can read the actual study hack89 Sep 2013 #8