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Originally Posted by Lune
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The fact that mass murders are declining isn't all that important.
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It's not? If mass murders are being pushed as the reason for the need for new gun regulations, wouldn't it follow that empirical data about mass murders would be important? And when someone comes here and claims to base their opinion on the supposed fact that mass murders are at a ridiculous all time high, perhaps it's important to point out that the data actually contradicts that viewpoint. Of course, that doesn't really apply in this case, since we all know iruinedyourday just bases his opinion on whatever stupid thought floats through his head and makes him feel like a good person. It's that kind of anti-scientific thinking that all people of reason should be fighting against.
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Originally Posted by Carl Sagan
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
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