Comment: The problem, as they say, is that there are "liars, damn liars, and statistics."  It's quite sad that so many people who fancy themselves as intelligent and well Informed, swallow what politicians and other authority figures say without understanding how statistics can be manipulated. 

Why, just last night on the PBS NewsHour, Democratic senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut was interviewed in connection with the Texas church slayings.  To a major extent, he obviously didn't know what he was talking about or, like our own poster ohanaman, may have conveniently left out inconvenient truths that didn't support his agenda. To quote him:

"This shooter by using a military-style assault weapon was able to engage in one of the worst mass shootings in American history, so clearly a "good guy with a gun" did not stop a "bad guy with a gun" this weekend in Texas.  It's part of this absurd mythology that the gun industry has tried to perpetuate in this country which is never ever true."  Never?