And as I thought, you can't back up your claims. You make claims yet you can't answer any questions about your claims, and you don't care enough to find out what the rationale is behind your claims are. You're right, it is a fun game.
5 year old kills 2 year old sister... with a birthday present.
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I claimed that there was a successful ban, and provided evidence for it. I said it reduced mass shootings, and provided evidence for it. Somewhere in that 90-page gun control thread, I provided evidence that crimes without guns are less deadly than crimes committed with guns. I have made no claims and raised no questions about rates of crimes in cities in Australia, that's your riff. Not only is tu quoque a fallacy, but in this case it's not even accurate.
Frankly, I haven't seen any good evidence on the link between gun control and crime rates. As far as I know, there may be no connection at all. Gun control seems to make crimes (and suicide attempts) less deadly, though.
I am assuming (perhaps mistakenly) that, although a post of mine was quoted in this post, that the comment was directed at the poster that I was responding to, and not to me.
On the chance that it was directed at me, let me rebut by stating that it is my firm opinion that there are very few people on the board who are dumber than me, so I do not think disagreement=stupidity.
You are correct, my post was not directed at you.
PearlWatson
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't several of the shootings (Aurora, Newtown) in places that were gun free zones? Perhaps what we should focus on is educating the criminals on where they can and cannot commit a crime with a gun. Then we could create all these gun free zones and really be safe inside them.
