Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Exactly what is "an open and honest conversation about guns"? [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)I've often drawn a comparison between gun control and global warming. In both cases, the right gets red-faced as they go on about the supposed lies and distortion and propaganda from the left. And, sure, maybe that one chart from "An Inconvenient Truth" didn't tell the whole story, and maybe there has been some alarmism, but overall the facts and the science very heavily support the fact that the earth is getting warmer due to greenhouse gas emissions. Even the "climategate" emails, which many on the right trumpeted as the smoking gun, when taken in context, add up to basically nothing at all.
And the same with guns. I'm sure some people have distorted and exaggerated in defense of gun control, and I'll concede that the evidence isn't as one-sided as on climate change, but still, the bulk of the evidence is on the side of tighter gun laws.
ETA: I noticed that right below, someone has repeated the NRA talking point that there are 20,000 gun laws on the books already. This is a great example of the kind of vacuous argument that you see from the right. The total number of gun laws is a useless statistic, because it doesn't measure anything meaningful. And yet I've seen it presented over and over as evidence that we already have plenty or too much gun control and we don't need any more.