Reply #64: Jeez, if you're going to use German... [View All]

[Euromutt]

Could you at least make sure it's correct German. I speak German, and I still don't have a clue what you're on about.

As for the so-called "rush to attack," that has a lot to do with the fact that claims about how gun shows provide criminals with firearms have been around for a long time, get repeated ad nauseam, and have zero evidence backing them up. This "study" is yet another addition to the stack of unsupported claims about how awful gun shows are.

Let's draw an analogy. We know how homophobes claim that same-sex marriage is bad, and gays shouldn't be allowed to adopt, because "studies have shown" that children do better with a mother and father. We also know they're lying through their teeth, because the studies in question found that children do better with two parents than with one, but found that the sex of either parent was immaterial.

Now let's imagine that some study comes out with a finding that children do do better in hetero households, and Fox News trumpets it as "study shows same-sex households harmful to children!" Would you have a problem with someone who wasted no time in shredding that particular study? Especially if it then turned out the researchers had to essentially ignore their own data to produce their findings?