Category: Cold Dead Hands

Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Dr. Eric Fleegler: Conclusions and RelevanceA higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually.
John Hinderaker: Conclusions and Relevance[N]ote that Fleegler’s study covers all 50 states, but leaves out the District of Columbia. Why do you suppose he chose to do that? …. Now let’s redo Fleegler’s math, with the District counted as one of the ten strictest jurisdictions. We now have an average rate of 4.0 gun homicides per 100,000 in the ten most anti-gun jurisdictions, and a gun homicide rate of 3.5 per 100,000 in the ten jurisdictions with the fewest gun regulations, even if we include the outlier, Louisiana.
But that’s just tasting the icing of Dr. Fleegler’s statistical upside-down cake.
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Clare v. Cukier

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Via email;

Thanks for putting up the link to the debate. Enough gun owners showed up to
give them trouble at the CBC and wreck their polls.
You might be interested in these screenshots when Wendy Cukier deviated from
her usual script and got honest. She was asked by someone why she was
“against women being able to defend themselves” and she replied “I don’t think anyone should defend themselves”.
It is a hypocritical answer especially since they have the infamous cyclist
killer Michael Bryant working for the Coalition for Gun Control now.
However it also betrays her true motives as it is the retort of a person who
is trying to politically dominate by levering buzzwords such as pacifism,
and selling out victims instead of having a fair political argument based on
reality.

Clare v. Cukier

Sheldon Clare of the NFA is debating Wendy Cukier of Coalition for Gun Control on the CBC fifth estate Webinar tonight.

Welcome to our live chat. Tonight’s fifth estate – Crossfire – takes aim at the furious fight over guns in America. Tune in on CBC Television this evening at 9 PM local time (9:30 NT) and share your thoughts on where you stand. We will be joined by guests on both sides of the firing line starting at 8 PM ET.

I wonder if they’ll take questions from the online audience…assuming there is an audience.

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