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In reply to the discussion: Gun in hand, 68 year old woman saves boyfriend in attack [View all]Straw Man
(6,777 posts)154. You obviously didn't read the linked article.
Yes....because THAT one doesn't make claims AGAINST guns...
those are the ones they are prevented from being presented to the public...
and I can prove it too...
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-02/quietly-congress-extends-ban-cdc-research-gun-violence
those are the ones they are prevented from being presented to the public...
and I can prove it too...
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-02/quietly-congress-extends-ban-cdc-research-gun-violence
Here it is again:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_nature/2013/06/handguns_suicides_mass_shootings_deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html
There are plenty of findings in there that are "against" guns. The findings are mixed. That's what you get when you do objective research. Isn't science wonderful?
There is no "ban" on gun research. There is a ban on federal funding for "research" that is agenda-driven rather than objective. The people who are complaining the loudest are the people who lost the meal ticket for their pet cause. The "disease" model for criminal violence is conceptually flawed and serves only to promote the cause of gun control.
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should we just start posting every single gun fatality on that occurs ...on DU?
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#1
Perhaps it would drown out all these desperate posts trying to prove guns
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#6
Take out the suicides and you have appox 8,000 firearm deaths per year in the US,
GGJohn
Nov 2015
#101
In Japan, if a husband killes his wife and three kids, it is nit recorded as a murder/suicide.
oneshooter
Nov 2015
#147
Don't we have sooooo many "irresponsible gun owners" in this country???
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#111
beevulhasn't cited, nor posted links from, the NRA. YOU, on the other hand,
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2015
#84
Now its congresses fault that you're a poor debater without any reliable source material?
beevul
Nov 2015
#35
statistics......you mean the statistics the NRA controlled REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#36
Well duh! That post just cited a recent gun control related CDC study ordered by President Obama
DonP
Nov 2015
#133
triple DUH! and I just showed YOU how the NRA runs Congress AND then the CDC
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#140
Prove what? Good night and better luck next time, with your "approach" to discussion you need it
DonP
Nov 2015
#69
More exclamation points and all CAPS doesn't make you sound any less desperate or foolish
DonP
Nov 2015
#79
Vanilla, in a hurricane of gun-banner postings of killings, you found a fetid breeze?
Eleanors38
Nov 2015
#131
Nearly 10,000 American children are injured or killed by guns every year
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#136