Apparently, feathers have been ruffled about my post on what gets you shot in Chicago and comments after. Allow me to expand; the study is a waste of time and money as I originally said and for many reasons:
- Even the simplest of low-information voters know that hanging around with a bad crowd will lead you into trouble. That admonition has been told since time immemorial by mothers everywhere and proven over and over. Why is a study necessary is beyond me.
- This study will be ignored by most politicians. Not only because it may shine a good light of Gun Owners, but mostly because it is a demonstration of failed social policies in general. For Chicago that would mean that the Liberal would have to go Mea Culpa and discard decades of “social revolutions” and they rather see more bodies piling up in the morgue than admit failure. What needs to be done in Chicago? Way beyond my pay grade, but certainly what they are doing now is not working.
- Till when are we going to treat ourselves as second class citizens? Why do we need to go after every lame study to show the people “Looky here! We are good! This study says so! Love me please!” If anybody needs numbers, there are two places to send them: NICS Background checks and FBI UCR and point out the obvious: We have a shitload more guns now and the violent crime went down. The stupid argument that more guns equal more crime is void and null. Time to Man/Woman up.
- f you are expecting that the Media will pick the study up and go “Oh God we were wrong! It is not the NRA but Gangs and assorted criminals the reason for the murders” get a comfy chair and lots of patience. The Narrative needs to be maintained even when it is a glaring mistake, but it is their lifeblood. And if you think I am kidding, yesterday the New York Times had a nice butt kissing editorial on the Violence Policy Center’s Concealed Carry Killers report. This “study” is so flawed on itself, it makes anybody with a half a brain and a calculator go “WTF were they thinking?” It shall be fisked at a later time.
Now, you may disagree with me and that is fine. But to quote Patton (from the movie) “I don’t like to pay twice from the same real estate” and the Yale study and placing any hopes that it will help us, does that.
[…] As I was writing up my (promised, forthcoming!) analysis of a recent article on nonfatal gunshot injuries that was treated dismissively on the Gun Free Zone blog, Miguel published a follow-up, Again (and final) on the Yale study. […]
I can see you are tired of this issue, so I was reluctant to comment again, but the irony of you posting this on the same day you posted about “Let’s have a conversation about guns…SHUT UP!” was too ripe! Not wanting to trouble you with excessive conversation, I posted my full reply on my own blog.
I grant that if your primary concern is with personal safety and gun rights, then this study has nothing to say to you. But in that case maybe you should just “SHUT UP!” about it and not invite a conversation about it by posting dismissive comments. (Since you are concerned about others’ emotional states when they comment, I would like to add a smiley face and a winking emoticon here.)
Well, I am glad I am able to provide you with material for your blog.
See? You just discovered another instance where water is wet. And what did you think was this blog about? How to cook quiche in a Greyhound bus going to Phoenix?
Just in case, that was a rhetorical question.
Haha, Thank You Miguel! You borrow so much from other people’s blogs yourself, I knew you would feel good about providing me with material for mine.
I will continue to read Gun Free Zone with interest every day, now with a new found realization that it is an echo chamber.
But to quote Patton (from the movie) “I don’t like to pay twice from the same real estate” and the Yale study and placing any hopes that it will help us, does that.
Hey, it’s just taxpayer money. Why should that matter to the liberal idiot pisswit gun haters. It’s not like you are paying for it ouot of your pocket. Oh, wait….
To quote a Democrat Senator from NY (Daniel Patrick Moynihan): “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
It is not only their livelihood; it is their mission. They are working very hard to establish conditions that will allow a Bolshevik Revolution redux, and they are very close to achieving it. One day in the near future it will be announced that due to some contrived emergency, the U.S. Constitution is suspended. What they will mean is, it is dissolved and it is dissolved perfectly, and ain’t coming back. They are wrong. It is not within their power to dissolve OR “suspend” the U.S. Constitution. Any attempt to do so is the action of a rogue, occupation, revolutionary government with no lawful authority to govern whatsoever. Let that sink in real good, because it is the only thing that will sustain you in the long fight ahead. But it is the ten-million-pound rock in the middle of their path to total control, and it is worth the fight. When that happens, it will not be “our” revolution. It is THEIR revolution, and they are conducting it already in everything they do. When they throw their shit at the fan, we the people are the counter-revolutionaries. It is our duty to stop them by whatever means it takes. And we will.