"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

Oh, what the hell: There are 27 open carry states and they represent
32.95%
of the population. They also are the states in which 31.26% of the
murders
are committed. Those are 2001 figures, US Census and FBI Uniform Crime
Reports. I have the Excel workbooks on it if you don't believe it, and
you're welcome to them.

I am far from a gun nut and cringe every time I say something supporting
Gunner but those statistics, on a per capata basis, seem to say that
open carry laws have very little to do with murder rates.

That's about the size of it. There seems to be no relationship at all. The
contention that 4/5 of the murders occur in non-open-carry states is either
looney or a lie, and, of course, it conveniently ignores the populations in
those states. I vote for a lie, having done some pro-gun lobbying myself and
knowing something about the people who cook up those numbers.

If there is an Andrew Ford, and if you know who he is, you can tell him
for
me that he's either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.

Don't you watch Faux News? That is the style of today's conservative
reporting. Take an insignificant fact, twist it a little, add a few
false assumptions for support and spew it out as "news".

I'm reading a book right now about the psychology of persuasion and
propaganda (_Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion_, by Robert Cialidini.
Widely acclaimed book; all my friends in advertising and marketing are
reading it. g). Although it was written before the latest round of culture
wars, you'll recognize today's key players in there, and the common human
weaknesses they prey upon.

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Ed Huntress
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