Negative Correlation
I wish I could go. Of course they do these things before the holidays when people are either on their way out of town or trying to prepare for vacations.
I think your points are good. I'd look into stuff that deflates his arguments. He said "Data shows a direct, negative correlation between the rate of gun deaths and states that ban assault weapons and require handgun trigger locks and safes". i'd like to know where they get there data. Just like I was reading a article this morning about how gun bans in austrailia have totally eliminated mass shootings. They completly left out the part about how crime rates rose and continue to rise. They skew statistics to benifit the position.
I tried to talk to him yesterday and all I could get was they think Seattle can do better and different things to eliminate these situations compared to what other cities have tried. But I have yet to hear new ideas that were not thought of and tried many places.
They want Seattle to be able to enact gun training to be completed before a CPL is issued. So does that mean some cities will not have reciprocity with other cities? It goes hand in hand with replealing the suprememe court rule on independant city and county gun laws. It would be a nightmare to know if your breaking a law when you travel around the state.
Doesn't the negative correlation reference defeat the argument that he is trying to make, e.g. death rates increase when weapon access decreases??? This is what negative correlation is, yes? Every Progressive Puke that cites stats on gun violence always throws in "gun, firearms, etc..." into the stat. Of course, if firearms are removed "firearm" death decreases, but they never note that violent crime, e.g. murders, rape, etc... goes up after gun bans, e.g. UK, Australia, etc... Cities like D.C. and Chicago have some of the highest gun restrictions in the country and they have trememdously high murder and violent crime rates when compared to other cities across the US... It should be about preventing all murder and violent crime and not just removing firearm deaths to replace them with another type of murder. Personally, I don't care if I am killed by a knife, gun, bomb, etc...I object to any way someone tries to kill me...