(09-03-2019 08:27 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-03-2019 12:31 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(09-02-2019 08:51 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-02-2019 04:21 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(09-02-2019 11:40 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Umm, not exactly.

Well, I am pretty sure the only reason anybody is alive in Chicago is the lives saved by background checks.

Nobody wants to opine on why the murder rate is so low in my gun-infested county? Lad? FBO? Bueller?

Hard to comment on your county without knowing the specifics I guess.

I don't give specifics to liberals, after a bad experience. Suffice it to say, it is a rural county. Biggest town in the county is 30K +/-, within a one hour drive of a major city.

It was much smaller when I went to HS here. Either way, lots of guns, not many shootings. That's my point - it isn't the guns that cause the shootings.

The only place I have ever been shot at is Harris County.

As many or more people shot in Chicago this weekend, but no mention of that on the cable news. If the gun laws made you safer, wouldn't you be safest in the place with the strictest gun laws?

https://wgntv.com/2019/09/02/34-shot-8-k...-violence/

Well... how would one figure that out? Perhaps study the issue? Apply scientific methods?

The CDC could certainly shed some light on this and other issues when it comes to gun violence.

It is completely baffling that we've let the NRA shut down funding for the study of this issue.

How could one figure that out? By using common sense?

So, you tell me where the gun laws have worked. Hint: It ain't places with lots of gangs.

But it still remains, places with the most guns are the places with the most gun violence. The device does not cause the action. Pressure cookers do not make people build bombs.