On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Doug Kanter wrote:

> "Lena B Katz" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>
>>> Like many gun owners, I'm no big fan of the NRA, since they tend to have
>>> an
>>> unhealthy, polarizing effect on the gun debate. But, the figures they use
>>> in
>>> their arguments are backed up with cites (sources). They would only be
>>> hurting their cause by fiddling with numbers whose accuracy can easily be
>>> checked. Only an idiot would suggest such a thing.
>>
>> I'm a bit "gun-shy" over here... Just found a "pamphlet" saying that
>> studies had shown that Abstinence Education was no better than No Sex Ed
>> at all.
>>
>> Problem was, when I looked at a metaanalysis, it had found that _neither_
>> Abstinence Plus or pure Abstinence Education was better than No Sex Ed at
>> all.
>>
>> People distort. Somtimes they do it intentionally.
>>
>> Lena
>
> So, if I took you to our county clerk's office, where you could personally
> count (as in "how many are there") pistol permit records, along with
> photocopies of the cancelled checks used to pay for them.......

I said, in part of my message that you kindly deleted, that your source
was relatively unbiased. I'm not trying to say that gov't numbers can't
be faked/misleading, but I'm also not trying to say your numbers aren't
valid.

NRA numbers might require a bit more homework... mostly on who did the
research and how biased they are.

Lena