{"id":76133,"date":"2022-01-14T12:51:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76133"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:51:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:51:46","slug":"76133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76133","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Well – they’ve got\u00a0 crap-for-brains to begin with, so ignoring truth is not ‘second nature’ but first nature<\/em><\/strong> for them.<\/p>\n

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BLUF:
\nThey can look at contrary evidence clear in the face and just pretend it doesn\u2019t exist, reject it out of hand simply because it goes against their preconceived notions that gun control is good.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re never going to talk sense into these people. You generally can\u2019t reason someone out of a position they didn\u2019t reason themselves into.<\/p>\n

How anti-gunners ignore inconvenient facts<\/a><\/p>\n

When it comes to a discussion of guns in America, there will always be something of a divide. Those who want to regulate almost anything will always want to regulate guns and those who do not wish to be ruled will argue against such regulations.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really not a difficult dichotomy to comprehend, all things considered.<\/p>\n

Currently, with violent crime raging, anti-gun folks are pushing hard and using the violence to justify any and all demands.<\/p>\n

Take this bit regarding Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the Center for American Progress and Progress Iowa wrote an\u00a0issue brief<\/a>\u00a0warning that, while gun violence in Iowa remained relatively low compared with other states, efforts in the Legislature to weaken the state\u2019s gun laws threatened the safety of Iowa communities. Unfortunately, Iowa lawmakers did not heed this warning and in 2021 continued to undermine gun safety in the state by repealing two crucial measures that have helped keep gun violence in Iowa at comparatively low levels: 1) the law requiring a permit, and therefore a background check, prior to every handgun sale and 2) the law requiring a permit to carry loaded, concealed handguns in the community.<\/p>\n

At the same time, similar to trends in other states, the coronavirus pandemic has been accompanied by an increase in gun deaths in Iowa: According to\u00a0early data<\/a>\u00a0from the Iowa Department of Public Health, gun-related deaths reached an all-time high in 2020, with an estimated 353 people killed. Once again, it is crucial that policymakers in Iowa take the issue of gun violence seriously and resist efforts to further weaken the state\u2019s gun laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, on the surface, if you knew nothing else about guns or gun control, it would be easy to look at this plea and think that maybe it\u2019s a good idea.<\/p>\n

The problem is, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Now, 2020 was a nasty year for violent crime all across the nation. That includes states that have long favored gun control policies such as California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, and so on.<\/p>\n

2021 was a slightly different animal, but not by much.<\/p>\n

Chicago saw the highest homicide rate it had\u00a0seen in 25 years<\/a>. Los Angeles had the highest it had\u00a0seen in 15 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So clearly, it was rough for a lot of places.<\/p>\n

However, we also saw violent crime go\u00a0down<\/em>\u00a0in a couple of large cities.\u00a0Dallas saw a decline<\/a>.\u00a0So did Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the difference between these four cities? The two where homicides went up were in anti-gun states while the two where it went down were in pro-gun states.<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019ll be the first to concede that this is just a data point and far from conclusive evidence. However, if fewer restrictions on guns result in greater violent crime as the anti-Second Amendment types claim, then shouldn\u2019t Dallas and Miami have seen the worst violent crime compared to Chicago and Los Angeles?<\/p>\n

What happens is that anti-Second Amendment folks don\u2019t want to look at that. They prefer to ignore inconvenient truths whenever possible.<\/p>\n

Gun-controlled states are having issues while non-gun-controlled states are having fewer problems. This isn\u2019t opinion. This is a fact, one based on the actual numbers.<\/p>\n

But you\u2019ll never get an anti-Second Amendment type to acknowledge it. Instead, they\u2019ll just pretend those facts don\u2019t exist, all while pushing the next bit of gun control to strike their fancy. They\u2019ll ignore it, all while pretending that those who oppose gun control want to do nothing to address violent crime.<\/p>\n

The term is cognitive dissonance. They can look at contrary evidence clear in the face and just pretend it doesn\u2019t exist, reject it out of hand simply because it goes against their preconceived notions that gun control is good.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re never going to talk sense into these people. You generally can\u2019t reason someone out of a position they didn\u2019t reason themselves into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well – they’ve got\u00a0 crap-for-brains to begin with, so ignoring truth is not ‘second nature’ but first nature for them. BLUF: They can look at contrary evidence clear in the face and just pretend it doesn\u2019t exist, reject it out of hand simply because it goes against their preconceived notions that gun control is good. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76134,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133\/revisions\/76134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}