MSNBC:
The math seems simple enough: weaker state gun laws equal more gun violence, so says a report released by the Center for American Progress.
According to the report, states with easier access to legal guns rank
higher on an aggregated scale of indicators that includes gun-related
homicides, suicides and the shooting deaths of women and children.
“Across the key indicators of gun violence that we analyzed, the 10
states with the weakest gun laws collectively have an aggregate level of
gun violence that is more than twice as high—104% higher, in fact—than
the 10 states with the strongest gun laws,” the report, America Under the Gun, reads.
“I think the report confirms what I experienced during my 25 years as a
federal agent — firearms laws work,” David
Chipman, a former official
with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, told MSNBC.com. “What
also struck me is that the release of such a report is news.
“It is a sad state that through pressure from the gun lobby, attempts to
prevent the CDC and the Department of Justice from publishing similar
annual reports has been largely successful,” he added.
When your argument is so weak that you
literally work to ban knowledge
from entering the conversation, you’ve got to wonder what it is that
you’re protecting. When the truth is an impediment to your position,
then your position is bullshit. And when that bullshit is about how many
people your position is killing every year, your position is just plain
evil.
The NRA are
not good people. They’re no
different than tobacco lobbyists who knew they were killing people, but
lied and said their product was harmless, because there was no money
saving lives.