“There are 90 deaths due to firearms every day”
This type of deliberate spin is a form of lying. Dr. BS is a liar and scoundrel, who opposes civil rights.
There are ZERO deaths “due to” inanimate objects. If a thug beats someone to death with a pipe, was the death “due to” the pipe, or the choices and actions of the thug? No one could be so stupid as to not know the answer.
How many of the 90 deaths are caused by Law Enforcement Officers?
How many are “due to” legitimate self-defense by crime victims?
How many of the 90 deaths are caused by “career” criminals?
Of the killers, how many were out on pre-trial bail for other crimes, or had been released early from jail or prison?
How many of the killers were in the US illegally?
How many of the 90 victims were themselves involved in criminal activity?
The answers to these questions show that the problem is criminality run rampant, especially in identifiable social groups. The solution is to control criminals and target the groups doing most of the crime. Criminals pose a MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.
Doctor Rabovsky states the following:
“40 percent of all guns in the U.S. are purchased through the public sector”
That is simply and completely false. Military and police only purchase a small fraction of firearms in the United States. In 2015, about 17 million firearms were sold outside the military in the U.S. There are only about 700,000 total federal state and local law enforcement in the United States. They might get new guns once a decade. It is likely less, on average. That would be about 70,000 guns a year, or about half of one percent of the firearms in the United States.
Guns that come to the civilian population from the military are a very small fraction of that.
Brilliantly said.