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Thursday, August 27, 2015

There are Damn Lies and Stupid Lies, Obama Does Both with his Dumbest Gun Control Argument Yet

This May Be Obama's Dumbest Gun Control Argument Yet | Frontpage Mag

August 27, 2015  Daniel Greenfield

This is aimed at liberals so stupid they have trouble walking upright


And that's saying something.
Obama is determined to fight his gun control Jihad and attempted to exploit the racist murder of two white reporters by pushing his own political agenda in the dumbest way possible.
“It breaks my heart every time you read about or hear about these kinds of incidents,” Obama said. “What we know, is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism.”
Since the set of people killed by guns includes terrorist attacks, this is a stupid and meaningless thing to say.
Obama could have equally said that more people are murdered than are murdered by terrorists. Or that more people died in wars than in WW2.
The various statistical attempts to minimize 9/11 that the left has been pushing all these years (more people die in car accidents in a year, etc) are obnoxious enough, but this is really aimed at liberals so stupid they have trouble walking upright.
Since gun-related incidents include suicides, ...
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