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Originally Posted by dhdallas
"For too long, you have swallowed manufactured statistics and fabricated technical support from anti-gun organizations that wouldn't know a semi-auto from a sharp stick. And it shows. You fall for it every time."
— National Press Club speech (1997) Charlton Heston
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The Heston quote brings out a very good point. The information on this topic is all too often hidden by the deluge of MISinformation about guns and the right to bear them. Social media (the ultimate oxymoron) guarantees that no matter how bizarre one's beliefs, he or she not only find like-minded people but also manufactured and misinterpreted information to support that belief. A prime example is one that has been mentioned here: 300 or more "mass shootings" so far this year--not a statistic, but the result of completely changing the definition of the term "mass shooting" by including gang and criminal-on-criminal gun violence. Not only that, but those same people have been so conditioned by media to associate "mass shooting" with "AR-15" that they immediately assume AR-15's have been involved in most or all of those manufactured "mass shootings" when nothing could be further from the truth.
It is the difference between looking for information vs. hunting for validation. Far too many of us, when we hear "information" that supports this-or-that point of view we have, believe it without question.