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Apparently not satisfied with all the firearm’s aficionados posting of late, our own Veritas Omnia Vincit sees fit to chime in with his own article, where he attempts to sway nay-sayers and gun-grabbers with cold facts and logic. As if that ever worked in the history of forever. To the Left all the factual reports, stats, and peer reviews aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit when compared with emotion, anecdotes, and feelings. Science be damned.
\nWhich brings up an interesting juxtaposition when they talk about Climate Change and settled science. But that’s for another day.
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Veritas Omnia Vincit<\/strong><\/p>\n The Scary Black Rifle, or How Many More Must Die, Your Honor?<\/p>\n Much ado about many things black rifles related in the news these days, New Zealanders losing their minds Democrats increasingly looking to ban the \u201cassault rifle\u201d so it had me thinking, is this much ado about something? Or as I believe much ado about nothing? Not that any murder victims are nothing, but a lot of people die every day in the United States and elsewhere and if we\u2019re looking to truly save lives perhaps we should be using real data instead of simple emotion and \u201cfeelings\u201d.<\/p>\n Most of you have come to realize I\u2019m a numbers guy, I like seeing what the data indicates before getting all worked up. If the data supports getting worked up, I\u2019m as good as the next guy in opening my pie hole to howl at the world. I decided that it might be good to look at some numbers collected by some very different sources and try and decide if the Scary Black Rifle is the threat to human life it\u2019s made out to be nearly every day of late in our media and on the dreaded Book of Faces.<\/p>\n I decided to look at some FBI numbers, and then I decided why not take a wild ride and look at the Mother Jones Mass Shooting Database. I know, I know Mother Jones\u2026blah blah blah\u2026.but guess what? Turns out their numbers are pretty honest. Starting back at a Welding Shop in Miami in the summer of 1982 they\u2019ve categorized a variety of shootings where mass fatalities have occurred over the last 37 years and the database is regularly updated. <\/p>\n Their interpretation of their numbers might be slightly different than mine so let\u2019s take a quick peek at the numbers of victims since 1982, turns out there are close to 900 dead over the last 37 years or 24 a year. That\u2019s right 24. Two of those events account for over 10% of all the deaths in mass shootings. <\/p>\n A little further research from the insurance industry and you discover that dog attacks kill between 30-35 people year or 25-50% MORE than mass shooting events. Clearly policy that affects millions of law abiding citizens should never be written on something as likely to happen to you as your pooch eating you for dinner. I\u2019m not making light of tragic outcomes here, there is nothing light about someone walking into a bar and killing 50 people because he hates gay Americans. It\u2019s dark, it\u2019s twisted and it\u2019s certainly horrific. But it\u2019s not something to rewrite the Constitution over regardless of how sad the outcome. <\/p>\n After looking at the Mother Jones numbers I popped over the FBI UCR page and took a look at murder in the United States in general. There I discovered that the Scary Black Rifle tends to kill less people than hammers and blunt force trauma when it comes to more traditional murder. Also with 17,000 murders those rifles accounted for less than 400 or about 2% of all yearly murders. Once again if saving lives is the goal clearly the Scary Black Rifle isn\u2019t much of a threat to anyone.<\/p>\n This leads me back to where it almost always leads me, where Heinlein and others have remarked that it\u2019s never really about things like labels. Not Democrat or Republican or nationalist or socialist, it\u2019s about control. It\u2019s about the exercise of power of a mostly law abiding and free people. Ayn Rand (yes a loon in many ways but right about some things as well) remarked that there is no way to rule a free people as the only power a government has is in the enforcement of laws, consequently if left alone a government will work hard to write so many laws the free people won\u2019t be able to do anything without breaking some of them.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve said it here and elsewhere over and over and I\u2019ll say it again. When it comes to the amendments regardless of what the courts have said there are no \u201creasonable\u201d restrictions. There are only restrictions. The founders created the set of amendments to make it clear they wanted the people to continue to be able to frighten the government into submission. What\u2019s happened instead is a people today are so fearful of the world outside their front doors they are willingly surrendering their natural born rights for an illusion of safety. <\/p>\n I\u2019m all for an honest and healthy debate about what kills Americans, legally and illegally in this modern nation of ours. But the key there for me is always the honest part. The Scary Black Rifle isn\u2019t really good at killing Americans if you look at the data, consequently if we\u2019re being honest there is no significant benefit to the people to ban or restrict this weapon. There is only a benefit to the government in further eroding your liberties to make certain you remain the tax sheep they want you to be without the ability to make any trouble for them.<\/p>\n If we\u2019re going to be honest about what kills Americans murder isn\u2019t even the most frightening thing at a mere 15-20,000 deaths a year. Simple errors kill 12.5 times as many Americans as murders. No one talks about those deaths. Perhaps my next article will explain those errors and how your local hospital is more likely to kill you than the local gang members.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now, feel free to tell me how wrong I am. I welcome the perspective. Thanks, V. You’re not wrong at all, but you’ll never get the gun-grabbers to admit it. Keep the faith though, there are folks out there who can be educated on their Constitutional Rights, and how valuable they ALL are. After all, without the Second Amendment, how long will the First Amendment survive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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