Since Trump’s election, gun groups catering to progressives and people of color report a surge in interest as they look to defend themselves in a country that, to them, feels increasingly unstable.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Ah, so you think (without any evidence) that the trend suddenly and drastically reversed itself in the last 10 months and no one bothered to report on it?

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      5 hours ago

      You are seemingly purposefully misconstruing my argument and that is annoying.

      Clearly the point is a new danger exists, why you keep insisting on the strawman argument against the position that gun stats arent real, something I’ve never indicated, I do not know.

      I can only think its in bad faith because you don’t have arguments against the actual opinions I’ve shared.

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        2 hours ago

        Can you point to any statistics for this new danger. Specifically, can you point to any metrics which show that a firearm is more likely to be used defensively than it is to be used on yourself or your spouse? I do believe that was exactly what you meant when you said…

        That’s nice, but those statistics are from a different time with a different threat profile.

        If that is not what you meant, then you need to clarify that statement. I haven’t built a strawman, I pointed out that the current trend for suicidal gun use is increasing, and without any evidence showing a dramatic change in the ratio of self-inflicted firearm deaths to all other firearm deaths, then it is clear that your position is incorrect, and you are moving goalposts in order to avoid admitting that your position is incorrect despite the publicly available data.