Reply #123: The OP attempted to correlate the crime rate with gun control. [View All]

[Warren Stupidity]

"The point would be Crime goes up when innocent people are unable to defend themselves." - the OP in response to what the point of his OP was.

That was an embarrassing mistake, as I pointed out. Google "Ceteris paribus" if you don't understand why, and then consider why NYC is a very interesting data point.

Then we have the tangential argument, also brought up in this thread, that you uttered above: "People in New York are unable to defend themselves from crime because they're unable to carry."

a) of course they can defend themselves, they just can't legally use a gun to do so unless they have a permit.
b) the implication, uttered by somebody here, being that people in NYC are being hurt physically by NYC's gun control laws. I've asked for the data that demonstrates that assertion, and in response I got ...


Note that I am not a proponent of strict gun control. I don't think the data justifies it. I am however opposed first of all to Total Bullshit, such as this OP, and secondly to the idiocy of advocating that we all walk around ready for a gunfight.