Ohio: Buckeyes for Concealed Carry President Uses Handgun to Defend Family

[DanTex]

127. LOL. Russia? Again?

This last post of yours is further validation of my claim that you are, in fact, the equivalent of global warming deniers and creationists, who make the precisely the same kinds of "axe to grind" excuses in order to ignore scientific evidence.

About Russia. Looking at cool pictures is fun, but when you grow up you might instead turn to measures such as the Human Development Index, per capita GDP, life expectancy, etc. Russia is simply not in the same category as nations like the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, etc., all of which have significantly tighter gun laws and far lower homicide rates than the US. Using Russia's homicide rate to argue against gun control is just as dumb as using their life expectancy to argue against single-payer healthcare.

About the "deaths per gun". The hard number is 30,000 gun deaths every year in the US, far greater on a per capita basis than any other developed nation, and far more than the total number of Americans killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and 9-11 combined. The number of "deaths per gun" is an irrelevant and transparent attempt to hide the extent of the gun violence epidemic. Kind of like saying that gee, AIDS kills some 20,000 or so Americans per year, but, hey, if you divide that by the total number of individual AIDS viruses, the number of "deaths per virus" is some tiny fraction. Who cares?

And this is why there are no scientifically literate people in the NRA bubble. Sure, you can call me names, and you can entertain your fellow pro-gunners with useless statistics and NRA talking points, but none of that adds up to a credible argument that stands up to scientific scrutiny.