When gun-grabbers can’t win arguments on the facts – and it takes a really, really dumb 2nd Amendment activist to lose an argument on the facts, since every last one favors us – they go for the emotion.
And to back up the emotion, they’ve got fake facts.
Which is not to say the facts themselves are fake; it’s just that they are tortured into a form that leaves a false conclusion.
To wit, this graph from lefty propaganda organ “The Trace”, showing “gun violence” rates in a particularly violent neighborhood of Saint Louis:
More violent than Honduras? The most violent country in the world?
Well, yeah. The neighborhood in question is what’s technically known as a “Crime-Ridden Hellhole”. Gangs, every variety of urban blight, decades of use by the city’s welfare system as a “warehouse for the poor”.
And it’s got a population of about 6,000. . So a murder rate of 290/100,000 in a population means that there were (doing math in head) 14-15 murders in the area. (Note; Saint Louis is a violent place).
The intended effect on the ignorant and gun control activists (pardon the redundancy) is to have them go “Wow – part of Saint Louis, more dangerous than Honduras? Time to ban guns!”
Of course, it’s dishonest. North Minneapolis – at 30,000, five times the size of Grand Ville – had 30 murders in 2015, which boils down to a murder rate of 100/100,000 – higher than Honduras, six times higher than Chicago.
And if you look at the intersection of Prior and University in Saint Paul in 2015, the murder that took place out in the street one Saturday night, in a n area of four square blocks with a population of maybe 50 people, gave the area a murder rate of 2,000/100,000.
What really matters is this: can people live, work and raise kids productively in an area? And by that measure, places like San Antonio and Boise and Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, where the ratio of guns to people is over 1:1 and the crime rate is almost too low to bother measuring, stack up pretty well.
The answer – in Democrat-dominated hellholes like the Grand Ville and the North Side – is “What, are you kidding me?”
So now we are comparing neighborhoods to countries? That is like comparing apples to orchards. Why not compare a comparable neighborhood in Tegucigalpa?
You know, a home that is the site of a murder-suicide using any tool would make the same point. No? Therefore we need to ban knives, baseball bats, bathtubs, and a whole bunch of other items.
It strikes me that a certain portion of the left does seem to have banned bathtubs (and showers), but I don’t know that this was their reasoning.
Why stop there? Let’s follow the logic. Since most murder-suicides happen in a home, let’s ban homes. No?
Why not simply ban both murder and suicide?
Oh, we do……..
Guess banning stuff doesn’t work as well as we would hope.
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