New York Times.
Never change.
US kids in their late teens are 82 times more likely to be murdered with guns than kids in other advanced countries. So don't listen to the NRA. My column: 10 Modest Steps to Cut Gun Violence https://t.co/60BvRaRYd6 Read and post your thoughts! pic.twitter.com/oYxfuh41tF
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) May 24, 2018
From The New York Times (sorry!):
After the school shooting last Friday in Texas claimed 10 lives, the incoming president of the National Rifle Association, Oliver North, blamed not guns but a “culture of violence” arising from violent movies and the like.
North fueled that culture by working as a pitchman for a shoot-em-up video game, but never mind. Meanwhile, Dan Patrick, the Republican lieutenant governor of Texas, was even more imaginative: He blamed too many school entrances and exits, and liberal abortion laws that he claimed had “devalued life.”
Really? Folks, look at Japan. Japanese kids relish the same violent entertainment as Americans, and abortion is widely available. Yet at most nine Japanese were murdered with guns across the entire country in all of 2016 — fewer than the 10 killed just last week at the Texas high school.
So blame the NRA, right?
Wrong.
Kyle Kashuv took Nick and his silly gun-grabbing piece apart by debating his ’10 Modest Steps to Cut Gun Violence’ point-by-point, and it’s pretty damn epic.
*Thread*
This article is quite bad and makes everything seem like common sense.
I am going to debunk the article 1-by-1. https://t.co/US0hZFDM5O
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Quite bad.
Recommended
He’s such a good kid. This editor would refer to this piece as ‘crap’ … but then again, this editor wasn’t exactly tops in her class either.
pt 1) This is a survey by gun control advocates that I trust about as far as I can throw it.
Pt. 2 see https://t.co/u922SDgDOL
pt. 3) “red flag laws” — If people "really" believe that these individuals are a danger to themselves or others, confine them to a mental…
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Oof.
health facility. Simply saying that someone can't legally buy a gun isn't a serious response. People can get guns in other ways just about as easily as they can buy illegal drugs. In addition, if you really people someone is a danger, why only take away their guns?…
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Get ’em, Kyle.
Why not also take away their cars?
pt 4) The intimate relationship numbers are useless because they also include crimes committed against prostitutes by Johns and Pimps. Women shouldn't be concerned about all men, but those who have a violent criminal history. 90% of adult…
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Wow.
murderers have a violent criminal history. When you see how relatively small murders are involving women, you get an idea how important these considerations are. Women, because they are weaker physically, also benefit much more from owning guns then men do….
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Dana Loesch has stated this time and time again, women need to learn how to use a firearm and carry one.
There is no greater ‘equalizer’ than a firearm.
Pt 5) Safe storage laws. https://t.co/QpJM3oy4zV
pt. 6) You can easily recover the serial numbers off of guns after they have been filed off. The original stamping of the serial number alters the metal under the serial numbers and can be read. Microstamping….
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Maybe Nick should have done a little more homework before he wrote his piece?
Pt. 7) Smart gun laws https://t.co/paC3Ganx1A
pt. 8) If you look at the month by month changes in crime in Boston for example where they did this experiment, the drop in crime occurred months BEFORE the program started. Only by looking at longer periods of time do they….
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
obscure that fact. In other places, there have been other changes in law enforcement occurring at the same time (e.g., such as more police).
pt. 9) There no evidence that limiting gun purchases reduces crime in either the state that the law is passed in or in neighboring…
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Nope. No evidence at all.
But that doesn’t stop people like Shannon Watts from pretending otherwise.
It’s also illegal for domestic abusers to possess guns — Lautenberg Amendment. Buybacks don’t work (mandatory Australia mid-90s), prohibited possesses won’t submit to UBCs.
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 25, 2018
Guess you could say Nick just got SCHOOLED.
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