re: #455 Lord Of The Pies

It’s dumb because she has fingers from both hands on the trigger.

It’s also dumb because it simply isn’t true.

By state and region, the claim falls flat. Even though DC’s murder rate is well above the national rate; once you take that rate out, it has a negligible effect given that we’re talking about 103 homicides/manslaughters out of 14,000+ in 2013.

However, if you dropped the South (and South Central) US, you’d see the rate drop significantly. And that correlates with lax gun laws.

Moreover, the Iron Pipeline that runs from the South up to the NYC metro area via DC, and similar routes to Detroit and Chicago allow illegal firearms to circumvent the strong gun control regs in those locales. The problem isn’t the strong gun control laws, it’s the lax laws in the South.