E.J. Dionne lives in a hole and thinks when someone pisses on him it’s raining.
His “evidence” is made up crap. I bet he think John Lott is a kook.
And I’ll bet $100 EJ lives in a gated community with armed security guards.
FU libs. I hope you all rot for eternity in a pit in hell.
The “evidence” is very carefully parsed so as to not be an outright lie.
Increased risk of gun accidents. True, it is hard to have a gun accident without a gun. It is also irrelevant. Accidents with guns are at an all time low, in spite of an all time high number of guns. The risk is much lower than owning a swimming pool or a car, and far less than having stairs in your house.
Nearly all gun accidents occur among people who have little sense of responsibility and are high risk takers in many other activities. There are about 1.5 fatal gun accidents per million people per year. There are about 125 fatal car accidents per million people per year.
Increased risk of suicide - Wait, what? I thought the left believed in a right to suicide? Do you get to chose or not? Oh, yes, the left believes in a right to suicide that is approved by the State! There are quite a few suicides that are committed with guns, but there is no evidence that they would not or should not happen without guns. Most suicides with guns, buy the way, are old white men.
The “Domestic Violence” aspect is harder to pin down. But as people who commit domenstic violence are already forbidden from owning guns, it seems a bit redundant.
What E.J. conveniently leaves out is the positive aspects of owning guns.
His whole approach is to “Manufacture Consent”; to use propaganda to get the masses to do what he wants.
With this level of risk, the Progressives can demonize nearly anything that they wish, and that is their modus operendi.
Consider how risky homosexual behavior is, or single parenthood, or abortion, or banning coal, releasing criminals, or many other things the left promotes.