http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/01/23/oh_the_lies_they_tell/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:31:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/01/23/oh_the_lies_they_tell/comment-page-1/#comment-48227 Stormy Dragon Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:21:46 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/01/23/oh_the_lies_they_tell/#comment-48227 Even if we grant their more expansive definition of the term "assault weapon", there's still a major problem with this editorial. Neither the ATF nor the BJS appears to have published statistics on the use of assault weapons in crime since the ban expired. I have to wonder if their claim that such crime has increased since the end of the ban is based on actual data or is merely being asserted on the basis of a reverse naturalistic fallacy (i.e. because X ought to be true, X is true). Even if we grant their more expansive definition of the term “assault weapon”, there’s still a major problem with this editorial. Neither the ATF nor the BJS appears to have published statistics on the use of assault weapons in crime since the ban expired. I have to wonder if their claim that such crime has increased since the end of the ban is based on actual data or is merely being asserted on the basis of a reverse naturalistic fallacy (i.e. because X ought to be true, X is true).

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