New study finds strong relationship between gun ownership and murder rate. Unfortunately for libs....
One of the pillars of liberal faith is that allowing ordinary citizens to own guns results in more murders.
Whether this is true or not doesn't seem to be a matter of much concern to liberals--they see guns as eeevil and simply refuse to consider counterarguments or examine facts on this question.
Liberals point out that European nations generally restrict gun ownership, and have far lower murder rates than the U.S. So gun ownership must be the problem
In that vein, a recent study examined murder rates in European nations, and found....
Uh, wait. This can't be right.
The study found that countries with higher gun ownership had *lower* murder rates???
Can't possibly be...right.
Example: Russia has extremely tight restrictions on civilian ownership of guns, but has a very high murder rate. Oh, wait--they must mean "high compared to other European nations but way lower than the gun-owning U.S." Yeah, dat's it. I mean, guns kill people in the U.S. at a frightening rate, right? Just ask anyone. Guns are the problem. Media's been telling us that for a couple of decades now.
What?? You say Russia's murder rate is *higher than ours*? FOUR TIMES higher??
How can this possibly be true?
Maybe Russia is an anomaly. Let's compare other European nations. Germany versus Luxemburg, for example. German has widespread gun ownership, while in Luxemburg handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal.
Luxemburg had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002.
Will this study make liberals rethink their position on gun bans?
Not at all. Because it cuts against something they've always wanted to do, and have already decided to do : to ban civilian gun ownership.
And for my liberal friends and relatives who are just certain that this story is from Faux News (oooh that is SO clever!) and that the study was done by some cow-college in a gun-lovin' state: It was published by Harvard.
Yes, that Harvard.
Whether this is true or not doesn't seem to be a matter of much concern to liberals--they see guns as eeevil and simply refuse to consider counterarguments or examine facts on this question.
Liberals point out that European nations generally restrict gun ownership, and have far lower murder rates than the U.S. So gun ownership must be the problem
In that vein, a recent study examined murder rates in European nations, and found....
Uh, wait. This can't be right.
The study found that countries with higher gun ownership had *lower* murder rates???
Can't possibly be...right.
Example: Russia has extremely tight restrictions on civilian ownership of guns, but has a very high murder rate. Oh, wait--they must mean "high compared to other European nations but way lower than the gun-owning U.S." Yeah, dat's it. I mean, guns kill people in the U.S. at a frightening rate, right? Just ask anyone. Guns are the problem. Media's been telling us that for a couple of decades now.
What?? You say Russia's murder rate is *higher than ours*? FOUR TIMES higher??
How can this possibly be true?
Maybe Russia is an anomaly. Let's compare other European nations. Germany versus Luxemburg, for example. German has widespread gun ownership, while in Luxemburg handguns are totally banned and ownership of any kind of gun is minimal.
Luxemburg had a murder rate nine times higher than Germany in 2002.
Will this study make liberals rethink their position on gun bans?
Not at all. Because it cuts against something they've always wanted to do, and have already decided to do : to ban civilian gun ownership.
And for my liberal friends and relatives who are just certain that this story is from Faux News (oooh that is SO clever!) and that the study was done by some cow-college in a gun-lovin' state: It was published by Harvard.
Yes, that Harvard.
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