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Straw Man

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9. Simple facts.

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 03:00 AM

Oct 2015

It is a simple fact that states with stricter gun control laws have lower rates of gun deaths.

Really? Then lax Vermont should be near the top of gun death rates, right? But lo-and-behold it's ... #37! How does Live-Free-or-Die New Hampshire end up with a lower rate of gun death than California, which vies with New York for the toughest laws in the nation?*

Could it be that there are other factors involved?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/06/zero-correlation-between-state-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/

Anything is better than nothing.

You have no idea how dangerous that statement is.

I really don't care if the NRA goes broke.

Goes broke? What you're talking about here will swell their coffers beyond their wildest dreams! You should be getting a recruitment bonus from them.

*(All figures from 2013.)

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Simple facts. Straw Man Oct 2015 #9

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