Quote:Do you have a source for that 40% stat?  I'm not disputing it at all, but would like to see and use that source.

 


I'm sure you saw that stat and would just love to use it to support your narrative, but you might want to slow down there bud.


 

Quote:Very few, if any, of the mass murders in the US would have been prevented by registration. Even the crazy guy in Colorado had not been found mentally ill by any medical or government agency at the time he bought his guns.


 
But by your logic one could argue that banning Islam from the United States would be a far better option. Since (and not including) 9/11, over 40% of the mass murders in the US have been committed by Muslims, who comprise a mere 0.8% of the population.

  

Quote:<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html'>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html</a>

 
Add 14 Muslim murders and 3 non-Muslim murders to the numbers in that article. The result is 40 out of 91 mass murders in the US committed by Muslims, 43.9%.


 
EDIT: That's mass murder deaths, not incidents.

Your stupidity is truly spectacular. In your effort to make everything neatly fit into your 'guns good, Muslims bad' narrative you have selected a source that actually goes against that narrative completely, and to further show your stupidity you have proceeded to entirely misinterpret the very statistic that you are using to make your ridiculous point.


You suggest that 40% of mass murders in the US are done by Muslims. You then use the New York Times article as your source. Let me make this clear: that article is about 'extremist attacks', it is not about all mass murders in the US. The actual statistic is that 40% of 'extremist attacks' in the US have been committed by Muslims. The common sense interpretation of this evidence is actually that, as a whole, that we should be more, or at least equally, concerned about other forms of extremism.


Here are the actual statistics for 'mass shootings' in the US. Of course, anybody with even an ounce of intelligence and analytical thought will know that not 40% of all mass shootings in the US are committed by Muslims. You are clearly not in this category.

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604'>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604</a>

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