Using Gun Rights Haters Own Research Against Them

By Ammoland

By Darren Wolfe

United States -(AmmoLand.com)- Easy to do with Robert Muggah, among many things the 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 bias, 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 clear that guns aren’t the drivers of a high murder rate. Most importantly, he directly contradicts that major gun rights haters’ argument when Dr. Muggah says that, “…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 historic lows.”. He then drives home the point with:

What’s more, we’re …Read the Rest

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