Posted on 06/22/2019 1:24:23 PM PDT by marktwain
Fraction of Suicides with Firearms – Orange; Per Capita Firearms in the US – Blue
When people want to believe something, they tend to fit the data to their pre-conceived ideas. This is known in scientific circles as confirmation bias. Others may call it rationalization.
It is on full display in an article written by Katie O'Conner in the Virgina Mercury. The article is piece promoting more restrictive gun laws in Virginia, in advance of the special session called by Democrat Governor Ralph Northam. The article is premised on false assumptions and the irrational attribution of volition to inanimate objects. From nbc12.com:
As state lawmakers prepare to reassemble in Richmond for a special session on gun control after the Virginia Beach shooting, this statistic will likely be repeated often: In Virginia, more than 1,000 people die due to gun violence every year.
That equates to almost three people every day. Guns take more lives than car crashes.
And nearly two-thirds of those gun-related deaths in Virginia are suicides.
First, this sentence:
In Virginia, more than 1,000 people die due to gun violence every year.
It sounds like a statement of fact. It isn't. A statement of fact would be: Guns are involved in more than 1,000 deaths in Virginia every year. The difference is in the causal attribution.
The causal attribution “due to gun violence” makes it appear
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Or the elites trying to grab power
“The push to ban guns is based on ignorance, emotion, and irrationality.”
I believe it is simply sold to people who are ignorant, emotional and irrational. They are the useful idiots who will carry the water for the people who are behind it seeking power through disarmament of the public.
Grab ‘em by the hoplophobe.
Hoplophobia is a political neologism coined by retired American military officer Jeff Cooper as a pejorative to describe an “irrational aversion to weapons.”
I believe it’s a tool used to create more crimes by those in power to allow them MORE power and control over the innocent.
Can you imagine how low crime would be if constitutional carry were allowed nationwide?
I have to keep my gun on my person at all times to prevent it going on a killing spree.
Thankfully I’ve been able to prevent it committing any senseless violence for all these years.
“It sounds like a statement of fact. It isn’t. A statement of fact would be: Guns are involved in more than 1,000 deaths in Virginia every year. The difference is in the causal attribution.”
I don’t buy even the statistics. It is dependent on lumping justifiable self defense, police shootings of assailants, and especially suicides in with criminal homicides. If a terminally ill person kills themselves in one second with a shot to the head is that violent crime that is the State’s business? Would it be better if the person poisoned themselves with pharmaceuticals instead? The Dems are close to taking over in Virginia via using the courts to gerrymander in this favor.
The Socialists want our guns so that they can kill us in relative safety
Virginia Citizens Defense League information can be found here:
There’s a rally 9am July 9 to protest Coonman’s special session to attack gun rights. All welcome!
“Irrational Hoplophobia” is redundant.
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