Good stuff. Your focus on numbers over rights in importantly correct. In the post-constitutiobal country we are in, holding up a copy of the constitution is rather like holding up a "no bear attacks" sign to a charging grizzly bear.
Rights written on a piece of paper are irrelevant unless all parties involved recognize the validity of the document. Neither political party does so.
Maybe the best hope now is that David Hogg can use the graphs to find "a guy whos name escapes me" and follow the numbers. I think that may actually be a great result if he can keep an open mind.
Regarding gun ownership v. homicide rate, I'm willing to bet everything I own that if you were to subtract the gun-related homicides in Fulton and Dekalb counties (Atlanta metro) from the Georgia state total, Georgia would have one of the lowest homicide rates in the country.
I found it frustrating that David Hogg dismissed all the defensive gun use information and thought it all came from the national rifle association. Sloppy thinking and debating from him
Hogg repeats the canard that the CDC was somehow prevented from studying "gun violence", but that never happened: The Dickey amendment specified that the CDC could not engage in "gun-control" advocacy research, which they had a habit of doing.
That it took 2 decades and an explicit permission slip from congress for the CDC to begin doing objective research, lays the responsibility for "gun violence" research squarely on the shoulders of the CDC, rather than on congress or the "gun lobby".
I found it frustrating that David Hogg dismissed all the defensive gun use information and thought it all came from the national rifle association. Sloppy thinking and debating from him
Good stuff. Your focus on numbers over rights in importantly correct. In the post-constitutiobal country we are in, holding up a copy of the constitution is rather like holding up a "no bear attacks" sign to a charging grizzly bear.
Rights written on a piece of paper are irrelevant unless all parties involved recognize the validity of the document. Neither political party does so.
Maybe the best hope now is that David Hogg can use the graphs to find "a guy whos name escapes me" and follow the numbers. I think that may actually be a great result if he can keep an open mind.
Regarding gun ownership v. homicide rate, I'm willing to bet everything I own that if you were to subtract the gun-related homicides in Fulton and Dekalb counties (Atlanta metro) from the Georgia state total, Georgia would have one of the lowest homicide rates in the country.
I found it frustrating that David Hogg dismissed all the defensive gun use information and thought it all came from the national rifle association. Sloppy thinking and debating from him
Hogg repeats the canard that the CDC was somehow prevented from studying "gun violence", but that never happened: The Dickey amendment specified that the CDC could not engage in "gun-control" advocacy research, which they had a habit of doing.
That it took 2 decades and an explicit permission slip from congress for the CDC to begin doing objective research, lays the responsibility for "gun violence" research squarely on the shoulders of the CDC, rather than on congress or the "gun lobby".
I found it frustrating that David Hogg dismissed all the defensive gun use information and thought it all came from the national rifle association. Sloppy thinking and debating from him
Could have ask Hogg head where the money went. Flying, eating, hotel rooms, etc. etc. etc. Just like BLM accounting.