frigidweirdo
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I did show it, proved it, and posted a link in Post # 75. Here it is again. (some people need to be told twice).No, I didn't say I did. And you have not shown anything at all.
We're not dealing with absolute provable things here. Now, there are those people who seek the truth, believing that this is the only way to deal effectively with situations, and there are those who will try and hide from the truth, because perhaps the truth isn't convenient for them.
What I did say, actually, was that states with more guns are more likely to have gun deaths and more likely to have a higher murder rate. Obviously we're dealing with millions of things that make this not "if there are 1 million guns there will be 35 murders a year" or anything that follows a set rule.
What you claimed, and never bothered to even to try and show, is that carry and conceal permits lead to less crime. Now, if you had tried to prove this I would merely have said that gun crime, murder etc has been going down nationwide, regardless of whether a state implemented carry and conceal or not.
You made a claim that gun free zones increase gun killings, without ever trying to prove this was the case, as as murders are going down in the US, you'd have a hard time proving this anyway.
So, we're dealing with things that cannot be proven.
So what do we do?
We debate, we bring forward arguments, we talk about them like sensible adults, we consider different points that are being made and then we come to a decision.
Or, let's get back to reality, you've decided your conclusion before we've even started, you're particularly interested in finding out the best possible conclusion to such a debate, and you're trying to merely have fun by trying to "win" something where winning would be getting as close to the truth as possible, but where you see it as merely annoying the other person as much as possible.
Murder rates drop as concealed carry permits soar: report
Here's a list of 32 cases where CONCEALED HANDGUN PERMIT HOLDERS HAVE STOPPED MASS PUBLIC SHOOTINGS.
Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped mass public shootings - Crime Prevention Research Center
You clearly don't know what prove it means.
So, you've found 32 concealed handgun permit holder have fired their guns to stop a situation that could have gone on to be worse.
So what? This isn't proving what you said you wanted to prove. This is showing some examples. It doesn't help.
To PROVE the carry and conceal reduces murder rates, you'd have to show that murder rates have gone down because of carry and conceal.
For all you know people carrying concealed weapons could kill more people than those carrying them who save people. Do you understand this simple concept?