Folks, this will be my last post on gun control for a bit (I hope). I found this video to be a great illustration of what's wrong with our current debate on gun control legislation. Often, we allow Internet memes and populist angst to be our compass on things we want our government to legislate on. We often do this without the scantest hint of sound research. Our sources are biased and manipulate data for their own agenda. I encourage you to do your own research and look for sources that are reliable and have a solid reputation for being unbiased. Don't allow your ignorance on an issue to misguide you to a decision based on faulty logic and data exploitation. When in doubt, remember Stalin relied on his own analysis of intelligence gleaned from the KGB to determine who was killed or imprisoned as an enemy of the state. 25 MILLION lives later we realized the folly in this logic (sort of). Then Iraq happened and again, we trusted alleged manipulated data to make presumably very flawed decisions. In a time of increased divisiveness and out of control vitriol-filled rhetoric, too much is at stake to get it wrong this time.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Video: Choose Your Own Crime Stats
Folks, this will be my last post on gun control for a bit (I hope). I found this video to be a great illustration of what's wrong with our current debate on gun control legislation. Often, we allow Internet memes and populist angst to be our compass on things we want our government to legislate on. We often do this without the scantest hint of sound research. Our sources are biased and manipulate data for their own agenda. I encourage you to do your own research and look for sources that are reliable and have a solid reputation for being unbiased. Don't allow your ignorance on an issue to misguide you to a decision based on faulty logic and data exploitation. When in doubt, remember Stalin relied on his own analysis of intelligence gleaned from the KGB to determine who was killed or imprisoned as an enemy of the state. 25 MILLION lives later we realized the folly in this logic (sort of). Then Iraq happened and again, we trusted alleged manipulated data to make presumably very flawed decisions. In a time of increased divisiveness and out of control vitriol-filled rhetoric, too much is at stake to get it wrong this time.
