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Anti-Gun Junk \u2018Science\u2019 Misleads Ignorant with Deceptive Fallacies<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S.A. \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0-(Ammoland.com<\/a>)-\u00a0\u201cFirearm sales in the United States broke records at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d\u00a0U.S News & World Report<\/em>\u00a0notes<\/a>. \u201cNow, researchers have found that firearm injuries to children also increased during the pandemic\u2019s first two years compared to the preceding year.\u201d<\/p>\n

A reasonable conclusion would be that the two occurrences are somehow related. The way this is presented implies that increased gun sales have resulted in more children suffering firearms injuries, or in the parlance of the citizen disarmament lobby, hurt BY guns. Right?<\/p>\n

Wrong, of course.<\/h3>\n

The obvious logical fallacy is that correlation equals causation. It does not. An extreme example to illustrate why is the nonexistent\u00a0ice cream\/rape \u201cconnection,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0claiming both sales and sexual assaults go up in hotter weather and falsely concluding that one influences the other.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re being led down another deceptive path as well with loaded terms. To see what we\u2019re supposed to envision, enter the word \u201cchildren\u201d in\u00a0Google\u2019s image search<\/a>. The results, happy munchkins doing happy munchkin things, are pretty much what everyone is going to expect.<\/p>\n

You have to do a deeper dive to find the population being exploited here includes 19-year-olds and that the dramatic increases are happening due to gang activity participated in by minority populations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFirearm-related injuries in Black children grew from nearly 31% in 2019 to 40% in 2020 and 48% in 2021. Those cases also showed increases in patients with mental health issues and in injuries where the shooter was a friend.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Increased firearm sales are extrapolated by increases in background checks. Who thinks teen gangs submit to those? In order for pandemic-related sales to significantly move statistics, the transference from the \u201clegal\u201d to the \u201cillegal\u201d market would need to be almost instantaneous, when in fact, ATF time-to-crime (\u201cthe amount of time between the retail sale of a firearm by a federal firearms licensee (FFL) and its recovery by law enforcement\u201d) statistics show a national average period\u00a0for 2021 of \u00a06.21 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n

True, the Michael Bloomberg-\u201cseeded\u201d agenda \u201cjournalism\u201d project\u00a0The Trace<\/em>\u00a0tries desperately to \u00a0establish a connection<\/a>, but after it\u2019s all said and done must concede the relationship is only \u201csuggested\u201d and admit:<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]he increase in gun sales is not solely responsible for the increase in short time-to-crime recoveries [and] the number of guns recovered and traced by law enforcement does not always indicate the amount of gun crime in a given year. In other words, factors driving increases in the amount of short-time-crime guns in the ATF\u2019s data may be separate from the factors contributing to gun violence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But the implication being pushed is that because people are buying more guns, crime is going up. What\u2019s being ignored is the more likely probability that because crime is going up, more people are buying guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst-time gun buyers continued to flood into firearms stores last year, broadening the once male and white market with women, blacks, Asians, and Hispanics,\u201d\u00a0the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em>\u00a0reported in January<\/a>. \u201cRetailers reported that concerns about safety helped to drive 5.4 million first-timers into gun stores where many bought more than one gun, and a sizable number also signed up for gun handling classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

What we have to understand here is that, like Bloomberg and his\u00a0The Trace<\/em>\u00a0beneficiaries, and like\u00a0the DSM<\/a>\u00a0picking up and parroting this latest in an unending line of narratives designed to separate Americans from their firearms, the \u201cresearchers\u201d behind this iteration of the long con are pediatricians. That politicized group, unable to disarm their countrymen, at least wants them to think they\u2019ll be safer locking their guns up separately from their ammunition. (If one tries that on you, hand them\u00a0a form I co-developed<\/a>\u00a0some years back to determine physician qualifications for dispensing such opinions under the guise of certified medical advice and ask them to complete it.)<\/p>\n

Hopefully, no one here thinks that\u2019s all they want, do they? As with all gun-grabbers, they\u2019ll take what they can get now and come back for more later, in increments, which is the best argument I can think of against \u201ccompromising.\u201d Here\u2019s what else they\u2019re coming for in their demands for \u201ca public safety approach like regulation of motor vehicles<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n