Reply #141: Which in and of itself is meaningless.

[krispos42]

If I said that green-painted cars were involved in 15% of traffic fatalities and started a movement to ban the possession and ownership of green-painted cars, then after the law passed that number would drop to virtually zero. I would be able to go on TV and pontificate about how I had reduced green-car-related fatalities by over 99%, and that the few green-car-related fatalities were done by a handful of criminals driving illegal vehicles. But claims that I made the highways safer would of course be ridiculous.

Doesn't mean progress was made, it means I shifted the fatalities onto other colors.


Guns are the tools of crime, not the motive. People don't buy a gun and say "Well, now it's time to experience the thrill of committing a felony", they say "I'm going to commit a crime, and one of the tools I need is a weapon".