Lies, Lies, and Damned Lies!

You can lie to Americans and some of them will believe you, if you neglect to include raw statistics. For instance, the anti-gun fools say the reason we have the highest "gun death" rate in the world is our "lax gun laws." One little problem: the RAW stats don't back that up. "Americans own more guns per capita than any other nationality, about 101 per 100 inhabitants, remarkable since barely more than a third of us own guns." At the same time, "The United States has far from the highest rate of murder by gun. We kill 3.2 people per 100,000 inhabitants each year. Brazilians kill about 18.1 per 100,000, Paraguayans about 7.35." That CLEARLY puts us in THIRD PLACE to two countries that have stiffer gun laws than we do. This writer couldn't resist taking a shot at the NRA when he wrote, "I wish the NRA would devote as much attention to gun safety as it does to raising money to rent politicians who would arm everyone to the teeth." "Renting" politicians? absurd. They rightly push against the current gun laws, which don't work, anyway. All their laws do is INCREASE gun deaths by keeping the law-abiding UNARMED, while criminals always have guns. And the NRA does spend a lot of money on teaching gun safety, but the anti-gun fools object to that. They hate ANYTHING that teaches people about guns. They would rather guns remain invisible, with NOBODY knowing anything about them. And yes, they DO promote allowing law-abiding people to have guns (which is guaranteed by the Constitution) for self defense. What's wrong with that is that their laws only apply to the law-abiding, and not to the owners of ILLEGALLY-obtained guns, which proliferate, without any controls. (Sun-Journal)