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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Seems like that's happened in any number of places. And remember when a couple of 12-year olds shot up a school in some southern state -- Arkansas? And the sniper in the tower at a football game in Texas? The MacDonald's massacre? (Anyone know what the gun control laws are in Columbine?)
Free and easy access to firearms didn't prevent any of these killings. Your inability to identify a shooting incident similar to the 101 California massacre that occurred in a state without strong gun control laws has nothing to do with reality. It is simply your perception, dictated by your ideological view of the effect of gun control laws on the populace's ability to defend itself.
In other words, if you firmly believe something, it's pretty easy to convince yourself that the evidence uniformly supports you.
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And for every massacre victim that you can't point to in a conceal-carry or more state, I'll do my best to avoid googling to find the dozens of uncharged survivors of gun violence who have survived only by flouting the law and having a gun handy when a gun was needed to ward off an armed criminal. Happens all the time in the anti-gun spots, and I'll be damned if I can think of even one time when anybody has been willing to prosecute the armed self-defender.
But no, I'm not saying the evidence uniformly supports me. I do, however, think that the weight of the evidence supports me. If nothing else, these massacres you point to in places like Texas pale in comparison to the homicide rates in, get this, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City and Washington DC. I'm not 100% certain, but guess with me what these cities have in common?
And why is it my inability to "identify a shooting incident similar to the 101 California massacre that occurred in a state without strong gun control laws", its not like I'm the only one trying to think of one.
