538 researcher's discovery about guns

[gejohnston]

20. Do people have the right to defend themselves?

As the article showed, using objective facts based on peer-reviewed social science, people use guns to prevent violence than to do violence.
"pro-gun talking points". You call objective facts and reason "talking points". Yet, you offer no facts nor evidence. That tells my I won. That is why your side is losing and a stone holding the party down.
Here is a question, did any gun control group condemn former CA senator Leland Yee? If they did, I missed it. All I saw was "we are saddened by losing an important ally". Yee wrote many of the gun control laws recently passed in California. He also pled guilty to weapons trafficking among other things. He was conspiring with his many friends in organized crime to smuggle machine guns into the US from the Phillippines.

I honestly don't believe most gun control activists believe gun laws will reduce crime or save lives. The leaders like Bloomberg and Yee frankly don't care about saving lives. It is about the culture war, authoritarian control, or trying to look tough on crime. Then there is Chicago.............
Where it is really about distracting the populous while having mutually beneficial relationships with drug gangs.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2012/Gangs-and-Politicians-An-Unholy-Alliance/