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hughee99

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18. Where did I say no, and what did I say no to?
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 01:30 PM
Aug 2012

I didn't see it, could you help me out with this? You seem to be trying really hard to paint my argument as "get rid of all gun laws, who cares how many people are killed". How about you work on your own argument.

You posted an article about Brazil discussing a reduction in guns as a result of a national policy resulting in a significant reduction in homicides (NOT specifically gun homicides), but based on the statistics I found, GUN homicides have remained relatively steady nationally, at least during the time period before and after this law was passed. If the statistics I have are accurate, it looks like the article tries to confuse the reader by jumping backing and forth between national and local (Sao Paolo) issues and cherry picking certain statistics while leaving out others. If you're talking about getting guns off the streets, what's more relevant, homicides or GUN homicides? Homicides went down, gun related homicides remained steady. You know what, lets just ignore that last bit, since it doesn't fit the "guns are the only problem" narrative.



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