Wednesday, January 2, 2013

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This is way too good not to share immediately. Here is your ammunition against those who commit Appeal to Emotion Fallacies, Appeal to Common Sense/Bandwagon Fallacies, and Appeal to Repetition Fallacies. This is exactly why it is so difficult to compare the United States to other countries.

Question for all the gun control proponents out there who love to simply compare the firearm ownership rate and the firearm homicide rate among developed countries in an attempt to show the US as an outlier: What is the difference between a firearm homicide, a knife homicide, a baseball bat homicide, a strangulation homicide, vehicular homicide, etc?

The answer: nothing. So if we want to talk about higher homicide rates in the US versus the UK or any other country you can actually find that has a lower homicide rate (hint: there's not many), then that's fine (even though this brilliant guy just showed why our's is higher based on our five times more high density population areas). But I will mercilessly ridicule the next person who tries to compare firearm homicide rates as valid evidence of "America's need for gun control."

Finally, my favorite part of what this guy did was leave it open ended. Unlike CNN and our power-hungry politicians, he recognizes that this is a complicated problem and does not seek to jump to conclusions and implement half-assed solutions that might only affect a fraction of 3% of the problem.

The link to his youtube video is here as well. Be sure to click through and give him a thumbs up.

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