50 shot dead - Orlando shooting

Baggsy said:

Might work better if you read the actual report rather than relying on some else's biased interpretation.

oh the irony. Both sides arguing that the other keeps pulling data out of their orafices, while doing the same.

lets stick with actual facts, shall we?

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That quote I posted IS right out of the actual report, in context.
Here's a little reading: http://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#15

Defensive Use of Guns
Defensive use of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010).

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Bottom line: even when Obama ordered the CDC to research the health impact of guns, expecting a landslide of evidence to support every single ban and restriction he and all the anti-gun people could imagine, the CDC paper ultimately found that there was in fact nothing conclusive.

These ARE the FACTS

Truth

mmmnaked said:

Here's a fact: guns are fkn awesome

Evidence to back up this fact:

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