Posted on 04/15/2018 1:25:30 PM PDT by marktwain
A person who dies because they did not have a gun is just as dead as a person who is murdered with a gun. In practice, overall unjustified homicides tend to rise a bit when gun are banned or restricted.
Those who push for disarmed populations use a logical fallacy when arguing for gun restrictions and gun bans. They only count people who are killed with guns, and ignore people who are killed because they were unarmed or disarmed.
This logical fallacy is called an irrelevancy argument. Whenever you see a chart or graph or statistic that uses the terms “gun homicide”, “gun deaths”, “gun suicides” or “gun violence”. The people using it are promoting a logical fallacy.
Used in research, these terms are a blatant case of confirmation bias in data selection. When people only look at negatives involving guns, they eliminate cases where guns are used to save lives.
What counts are not “gun homicides”, but all unjustified homicides. If the unjustified homicide level rises when gun restrictions are put in place, the stated purpose of the gun restrictions has not been achieved. The gun restriction cost lives instead of saving them. If the homicide level remains the same, all the expense, disruption of individual lives, industry, personal hardship, and loss of freedom has been inflicted for no gain. The restrictions have resulted in a net loss.
In practice, gun bans and gun restrictions have only small effects on homicide rates. In the United States, John Lott and others
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No one ever mentions the “crimes never committed” due to an armed public. Crime is dangerous. It’s best to keep it that way.
I’ve been using this argument, lately. Guns need to remaimn in civilian hands for the same reason that we don’t ban swimming pools, automobiles, or hammers from our lives. They are used to perform a beneficial social function which far outweighs the danger from their misuse.
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An armed society is a polite society....open carry for all gun owners.
How about "Constitutional carry" for all gun owners?? Carry concealed or open as the situation dictates.
Works for me . I had just resided in Maine for about 8-9 years and the open carry law got passed like 3 years ago . Crime is (except for drugs) almost nill....and virtually everyone has a firearm . Some chose to just wear it in a belt holster....needless to say robbery is not to common.
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http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf
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“How about “Constitutional carry” for all gun owners?? Carry concealed or open as the situation dictates.”
Kinda like how The Constitution was designed against the restriction of liberty.
It shouldn’t even be a debate. Someone tries to disarm the public, he gets strung up.
I live in Maine, and have for the last 26 years.
What you said is true.
Just bought a new sticky holster for an S&W MP I literally forgot it was on me.
SUPER comfortable
Just in time for summer!
I started with an Uncle Mikes sidekick, but was not happy with retention, moved to a Bulldog but was not happy with comfort or convenience,
I was skeptical, but I forget I am wearing the Sticky.
The only issue is you gotta remember were you placed it!
It’s that comfortable
Stay safe my friends
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