Sorry but your content is misleading. Take for example the following quote, from Amnesty International, which cite in your article:
> governments [with] poor regulation of the possession and use of guns lead to violence and that they must tackle this now through strict controls on guns and effective interventions in communities suffering high levels of gun violence.
From this say the following:
> The key statement is:
Guns lead to violence
The statement above implies a couple of things:
1. Gun volume and violence are correlated
2. As the number of guns increase, violence increases
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This is a blatant distortion of what that quote from Amnesty is saying.
That are clearly saying that _poor regulation of the possession and use of guns_ leads to violence.
You are quite obviously engaging in bad faith arguments.
I think you’re splitting hairs, and this is my point — you pulled one quote out of a many thousand word document. Not only that, you suggest dismissing all the actual data based on this quote. This is an introductory quote that has no bearing on literally _anything_ presented. The framing of the discussion, perhaps, but not the data or conclusions.
In terms of why I thought this was interesting, the key statement is:
> poor regulation of the possession and use of guns
Meaning, the regulation of possession (I.e. reduced number of guns in peoples hands, particularly of certain classes of people) and use of guns, i.e. when they can be used (open carry vs conceal vs home only, etc).
There’s no bad faith, this is literally what they said. I then expand and look at factors that should have correlations to the above.
What I did is look at the data we had. The data actually indicates the places with the strictest gun laws in the US have the highest firearm related homicides. This implies regulations aren’t the issue (enforcement perhaps?). Regardless, the rest of the thousands of words explain and explore the topic.
> governments [with] poor regulation of the possession and use of guns lead to violence and that they must tackle this now through strict controls on guns and effective interventions in communities suffering high levels of gun violence.
From this say the following:
> The key statement is:
Guns lead to violence
The statement above implies a couple of things:
1. Gun volume and violence are correlated
2. As the number of guns increase, violence increases
—————
This is a blatant distortion of what that quote from Amnesty is saying.
That are clearly saying that _poor regulation of the possession and use of guns_ leads to violence.
You are quite obviously engaging in bad faith arguments.
edit: formatting