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In reply to the discussion: Record Gun Sales in December [View all]> Now admittedly the NRA does publish false or misleading propaganda and so do the VPC and the Brady Campaign.
Let's see. When the NRA publishes false info, it arguably helps kill more people. When the others you mentioned do, it arguably saves lives.
False Equivalency at its finest!
> Now perhaps I am wrong and the long tentacles of the NRA of the NRA have reached into the NRA and the DOJ and caused false statistics to be published. Somehow I doubt this.
Somehow I doubt you've thought much about it, since it is the interpretation of the stats - the spin of the NRA - that is in question.
I bet you study the pesky fact that almost all nations having strict gun control have negligible deaths due to them. I bet you study it a lot.
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Hoyt
Jan 2013
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I suspect that you label any fact or statistic that disproves your view that all firearms ...
spin
Jan 2013
#25
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spin
Jan 2013
#51
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Jan 2013
#33
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Jan 2013
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Jan 2013
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