What do you recommend, then? A conversation with Mr. Ouija?
Statistics are fine, but you do need to be a discriminating consumer and take enough time to figure out what they mean.
I posted some murder rates in Right to Carry States a while back on this thread in response to the Yosemite Sam paintings that were offered in opposition to the proposition of hunting with a handgun.
Those very low murder rates in all those States do not prove that we'd have the same murder rate if we were a Right to Carry Province. But they DO prove that folks who pass background checks and take training do not shoot each other when they carry handguns. They just don't. Hence those real low murder rates. That much was proved. If the Yosemite Sam objection raised here to oppose hunting with handguns was real, those low murder rates could simply not exist, regardless of the size of their cities, unemployment rate, length of their highways, the quality of their crystal meth. or any other distraction somebody wants to toss out. It is impossible to have a very low murder rate if Right to Carry means people commence shooting at red lights, etc. etc. etc. etc. Impossible. Hence, the Yosemite Sam objection is a proven hallucination.
Statistics are very useful - as long as you don't get the bit in your teeth and run off into the Back 40 with them. Gun Zombies do that. A lot.
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