> On Jan 6, 2017, at 9:52 AM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Anti-gun operatives then had to make the "violence" issue their own. By > coining the phrase "gun violence" they were able to leverage the word > "violence" for their camp, and tie it to guns and continue to demonize guns > [and hence lessen the perceived self-defense utility of guns]. All in all a > slick turn-around. The only response I ever give to "gun violence" arguments is that "gun violence" is an entirely artificial metric introduced only to bias the debate towards the desired (but wrong) solution. The best analogy: doctors and hospitals are directly responsible for over 250,000 "erroneous" deaths annually (vs. 30,000 for guns). If you focus narrowly on "doctor-caused deaths," there's an immediately obvious way to reduce these to zero, which is every bit as shortsighted as the usual proposed solutions to "gun violence." Same goes for "police brutality." There are no end of examples to which the "common sense" (ignorant) solution <http://www.kaistaats.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/science_vs_everything-648x212.jpg> can be badly applied.
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