Tom Arnold: 80 Percent Of Gun Owners Shoot Themselves Or Family Member

By Tom Knighton

Tom Arnold isn’t someone you go to for intelligent conversation. The man is best known for being married to Roseanne Barr and has had precisely one decent movie role where he was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s partner in True Lies. That’s the entirety of why he’s famous.

But, he is famous, and because of that, he’s got a big platform on social media.

It’s a platform where he utters the most completely brain-dead things possible, apparently. Stuff like this:

This explains why 80% of gun owners shoot themselves or members of their own families.

— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) November 30, 2018

Of course, Arnold never provided a citation for that claim.

Of course, Arnold can’t provide a citation for that claim, because it’s complete and total BS.

Keep in mind that Americans own somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 million guns. If 80 percent of us were shooting ourselves or family members, I’m pretty sure there would be news reports on this. The anti-gun media would latch onto this and pound it like a nail that just doesn’t want to be driven down. They’d never give up on this position, and why would they? In reality, it would probably be effective.

But they don’t, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms