One of Ms. Cruz's featured points involved Luxembourg. To wit, Ms. Cruz asserted that tiny Luxembourg with admittedly restrictive gun laws fared no better- indeed, worse- than larger Germany with less restrictive gun laws with respect to gun homicides.
Of course, Ms. Cruz advertises herself as a "researcher" which apparently means she has the same credentials as a medical doctor, lawyer, astronaut, or professional jai alai player. Let's look at the facts:
Ms. Cruz used a table from the Kates-Mauser op/ed:
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Note Luxembourg. It's key to Ms. Cruz's "research."
As we see the table plainly says Luxembourg has a murder rate of over 9 people per 100,000 people (2002).
But here's where a real, actual, honest to God, semi-sober , not in the bag, totally unfucked-up "researcher" might have done her homework.
The actual murder rate for Luxembourg (2002) was 0.9 not 9.01 as asserted by professional researcher, Jennifer L. Cruz. Which renders her further conclusions about guns, gun control and all matters rather moot -or silly. BTW, Kates and Mauser , in subsequent editions of their op/ed, omitted Luxembourg.
More to follow as Jennifer L. Cruz is simply a goldmine of foolishness.
Do you have a point here, other than to go after someone who writes for a blog and may have misinterpreted a typo? Or let's put it this way: Jadegold, are you aware of how you're seen around the Internet?
ReplyDeleteGreg, you've got a lot of nerve pretending to not get the point. Just the other day you were taking me over the coals for having called someone a lawful gun owner who you discovered was not. You chastised me for not doing simple research. But here you're defending Jennifer Cruz for a much bigger "mistake."
DeleteThat's exactly my point. Jadegold didn't pounce on you. You repeatedly make that same error, but you never learn, and he never says a word against you.
DeleteWhhaaaa, whaa,whaa, whaa.
Delete"Repeatedly" is wrong.
Mikeb, you may cry all you want, but how many articles a day do you attach "lawful" to the term, gun owner, and how often do you speculate about whether someone had a carry license?
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