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flamin lib

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1. "this correlation does not prove a causal relationship", the ever present response to any study that
Sat Dec 24, 2016, 12:06 PM
Dec 2016

links guns to death. "You can't PROVE a casual relationship between strong gun laws and less death." Of course not, that's proving a negative. I can't show that THIS person wasn't shot because, well, they WERE'T SHOT!

You can show a CORRELATION which links the two things. More guns with less supervision of who has them means more people get shot. Period.

More cars on a freeway means more car accidents. I can't PROVE that any individual accident was caused by the increase in traffic but bet your ass as the traffic increases so do car accidents.

It is hard to beleive that gunners can't make the connection but then the great oracle Lott wrote a book titled More Guns Less Crime so it must be true. The gun lobby told them so and EVERYTHING that proves that their fetish is a good thing is believed.

NRA lied and they believe.

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