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pipoman

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5. Just injecting a bit of truth

Reply to Scuba (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:29 AM

Dec 2012

The Brady's are statistical gymnasts. Why didn't you post a link to the source of the map? "Gun death rates" includes everything from suicide to police shootings..crime rates are what people believe they are seeing when they read this silly map...just pointing out the fallacy here...why doesn't Brady publish a map showing gun homicide or gun violence with their silly rating system? because it would prove them irrelevant as they are.

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Grading State Gun Laws [View all] Scuba Dec 2012 OP

The Brady Bunch.. pipoman Dec 2012 #1

"Homicides" and "deaths" are two different things. Look it up if you don't believe me. Scuba Dec 2012 #2

Maybe, just a twisting of fact.. pipoman Dec 2012 #3

Does introducing a new term (e.g, "gun violence) to the discussion constitute "twisting facts"? Scuba Dec 2012 #4

Just injecting a bit of truth pipoman Dec 2012 #5

You're projecting your reading comprehension difficulties to the rest of the population. Scuba Dec 2012 #7

Did you make this map? pipoman Dec 2012 #9

It is the "Brady Campaign," get it right or get the fuck out... nt Comrade_McKenzie Dec 2012 #6

LOL pipoman Dec 2012 #10

I see you left out DC (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #8

DC happens to be surrounded by a country full of guns, Chorophyll Dec 2012 #11

Two states full of guns, with laxer gun laws, and lower gun crime rates (nt) Recursion Dec 2012 #13

And no one stopping anyone from those states at the DC border. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #14

That's a boatload of fail, but you should add a link. Chorophyll Dec 2012 #12

Glad to see that the brady bunch has given my state an F. tradecenter Dec 2012 #15