This is a fantastic illustration on why “Gun Death” is a meaningless metric and what the REAL violent crime problem is in this country.
A previously convicted murderer is headed back to prison after a Tulsa jury found him guilty of assaulting a woman by using a sword…He was sentenced to 51 years in prison and got out of prison in 2005, records show.
When Arp was convicted of murder, Oklahoma did not have a law requiring a person to serve at least 85 percent of a prison term for murder before being eligible for parole. It does now.
Doesn’t say how long he served, but it can’t be all that long. Also think about this how many of you have killed anybody? Now note that this guy has killed and been convicted of Murder TWICE.
How many of you own large knives or swords? Guns? Now think of all the people you know. That’s a pretty big data set. So what’s the only common denominator? This guy, the murderer….and yet those who use the metric of “Gun Death” seem to assume that because I carry a gun I’m somehow more likely to murder and assault…yet somebody who HAS murdered (with or without a gun) is let go.
How much sense does that make to you?
h/t Wallphone
Dear Weerd Beard,
Speaking of which, One of my life’s goal is to be holding the gun through which I kill this man who has brought no good to this earth..
Good Job!