Robert Muggah’s Gun Control “Facts” = Garbage In, Garbage Out

By Robert Farago

Darren Wolfe writes [via AmmoLand.com]

It’s easy to use gin rights haters research against them. At least it is with Robert Muggah, coauthor of “We Need Better Data for a Serious Gun Control Debate.” An article in which he advocates gun control, despite the fact that he claims there isn’t enough good data on the subject to even have a debate about it. A tad biased, wouldn’t you agree? Could that be why gun rights advocates don’t want such people doing research on crime and violence? But I digress . . .

On October 8, 2014 he gave a talk at TEDGlobal 2014: South! in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil titled “How To Protect Fast-Growing Cities From Failing”:

In his talk, he says a number of things that make it clear that guns aren’t the drivers of a high murder rate. Most importantly, he directly contradicts the major gun rights haters’ argument when Dr. Muggah says, “…when it comes to cities, the conversation is dominated by the North, that is, North America, Western Europe, Australia and Japan, where violence is actually at …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns