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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that..... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hoa Hao who wrote (4806)	11/9/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: Akula	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

That is what we call propaganda. I thought that site was incredibly funny. Here's one of my favorite parts: "Firearms: More significantly, despite the fact the number of firearms and handguns owned by individual Americans continued to increase from 1997 to 1998, the F.B.I. also reported: The rate of firearms used to commit murders decreased from 67.8 in 1997 to 64.9 in 1998. The rate of firearms used to commit robberies decreased from 39.7 in 1997 to 38.2 in 1998. These facts conclusively prove that firearms owned by peaceable citizens do not lead to increased murder or violent crime rates. In fact, the facts demonstrate that armed citizens lead to reduced rates of violent crime." I get it. Using this logic A(more guns) and B(fewer gun crimes) means A therefore B. It might be just me, but I don't see the causal relationship. Here's another one: "Japan vs. the United States: murder and suicide rates Japan's murder rate averages 0.9 per 100,000, but its suicide rate is 20.3, for a combined rate of 21.1 per 100,000. The U.S. murder rate averages 7.4 per 100,000, and the suicide rate is 12.0, for a combined total of 19.4 per 100,000. Thus, the combined murder and suicide rates in Japan and the U.S. are nearly equal even though firearms are virtually non-existent in Japan. (Source: National Safety Council's 1997 Accident Facts and the United Nations Demographic Yearbook)" This is really relevant. I like how they take facts they don't like, add unrelated facts they do, and come to a startlingly stupid conclusion. This is called cognitive dissonance. When confronted with a fact that contradicted their belief, they simply tried to outweigh the dissonant belief with consonant ones. Please tell me if you have any more amusing sites.