During the February 11 airing of 60 Minutes, host Steve Kroft suggested data showing more guns equal less crime is simply one of numerous “alternate facts.”
He was intimating that pro-Second Amendment facts exist, but those facts are often dispelled by anti-Second Amendment facts.
Of course, this is not how facts work. Instead, there is what is true and what is false, and facts distinguish the former from the latter.
For instance, Democrats rail against AR-15s and AK-47s as the weapon of choice for miscreants, but unvarnished FBI stats show over four times more people were stabbed to death in 2016 than were shot and killed with rifles of any kind.
Democrats contend that gun control makes us safer, but Colorado adopted universal background checks, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and other gun controls in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack only to witness two high profile shootings in 2015 and ten officers shot since December 31, 2017.
by AWR Hawkins