Some Facts for Alexander Riley

Here is an extreme case of an Anti-Gun Pants Shitter. He's hard to argue with, mainly because he doesn't have any facts. Just invective in ALL CAPS and even BOLD ALL CAPS. (Can multiple punctuation marks be far behind?!?!?!?!?!?!)

Here are a few tidbits from the sidebar of his site:

This blog exists as a source of dissemination of factual information on guns, gun violence, the victims and perpetrators of that violence, and political efforts to make our society safer.

Sounds good so far, right? It doesn't last long.

I am a busy man. Posting material and arguments here takes up a lot of the spare time I have. I have no desire to respond over and over again to such silliness.

Where have I heard that before? Here, for one and here as well. The only desire of these types is one-way conversation.

If you would like to add something useful to the material I've posted here, by all means, please do. Your thoughtful comments are welcome.

Somehow I think "thoughtful" is a synonym for "thinking like I think" in this case.

Finally, an attempt at taking the moral high ground:

I do this work for the life of my daughter and the memory of my sisters Tia (1968-1993) and Shannon (1969-1997), both victims of American gunism

Vague enough to lead most folks to thinking there was tragedy involved without ever saying so. Color me skeptical. What gunism is, I have no idea.

What got me going on this guy wasn't anything he's posted (it's all drivel), but this posting by 308Mike at The Gun Thing

It's the Mauser/Kates report, all about facts and stuff. You know, the stuff people like Alex don't want to hear.

Mike says:

In their analysis, Kates and Mauser compared different countries, different population groups and different types of interpersonal violence, homicide and suicide throughout much of recorded history, and found that the old anti-gun axioms that you so often hear are false:

* More firearms do not equate to more homicide or more suicide.

* Fewer firearms do not equate to less homicide or less suicide.

In fact, more often than not, just the opposite is true.

I bet Alex and Bryan Miller are falling over each other to get a copy of this. Or not.

It's also available for (free) download at that location (can't get the link to work here), so go get a copy!

Anything to further Reasoned Discourse.

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