Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor

Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by Turing_Machine on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:29PM (#21276000)

He actually links to the 2018 version of the same data (which shows the death toll from hands and feet to be about 2.25x that of rifles), but conveniently ignores that fact.

Well, schools don't have "foot violence" drills, either.

He claims that he heard "somebody" make the meteor claim. Perhaps he did. I've heard a lot of people make a lot of bogus claims over the years.

I suppose writing lengthy blog posts to refute anonymous "somebodies" might be his hobby.

An alternative explanation might be that he went looking for an easily-refuted straw man to advance his political agenda.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by i_am_proteus on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:31PM (#21276016)

Given the implication of his opening line that "gun advocates do not understand statistics and mathematics," this is an excellent example of a straw man.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by Turing_Machine on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:03PM (#21276426)

I'm pretty sure that generalizing from a single anonymous "somebody" to "gun advocates" as a whole does not "demonstrate understanding of statistics and mathematics".

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by jakeogh on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:07PM (#21276475)

Parent's comment makes more sense if one assumes they are referring to the article.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by Turing_Machine on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:19PM (#21276597)

Ah, so it does.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by weare138 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:38PM (#21277308)

> Well, schools don't have "foot violence" drills, either.

No one has ever walked into a school and punched or kicked multiple people to death either. Why? Because you couldn't even if you wanted to. That's a completely illogical line of reasoning.

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by masonic on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:03AM (#21279876)

  No one has ever walked into a school and punched or kicked multiple people to death, either

"No one ever" is a broad claim. But certainly, killing 8 school kids with a knife or 7 with a cleaver is easy enough -- two examples in two months here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(2010–...

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Re:Murder by Rifle vs. Death by Meteor by weare138 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:16PM (#21287832)

> No one has ever walked into a school and punched or kicked multiple people to death

It's not a broad claim and not even relavent to your point. But while we're on the subject, we don't have a "mass knifing" or "mass cleaving" problem in America either.

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