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Originally Posted by Envitro
Ad-hominem, sure. Attack the author of the source material, but not the data in the study itself.
So a professor from one of the top schools in the country is apparently a shill for the "gun industry"
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I don't bother reading anything from the Frasier Institute because everything I have seen in the past is presented with a strong agenda behind it. Is this one any different? Who knows, probably not. But he is described on his Wikipedia page as being a gun rights advocate, so clearly he's pushing an agenda. It's also from 2003, so totally out of date. So what point is there in me looking through an outdated study written by a guy with an agenda? Should I attempt to suss out the inaccuracies? Again, not worth my time. The data I presented is much more recent, and probably refutes everything he said.
Anyway, if your thesis is that guns aren't really a problem in the States, there is no other way of approaching that than telling you you are wrong, and their is a plethora of facts out there to support it.