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Let's get down to the lies, Charles.

1. I did write a piece - *two* of them, actually - arguing that carrying a weapon is not zero risk, and that multiplying that risk times "everyone carrying who can carry" is statistically dumb next to the risk of being shot in church.
2. You then decided to come in, midstream, in my discussion with @dougstafford to respond to my cultural aversion to people who carry - a separate argument. You took it as elitism. Fine, it is. Not culture. It's not really yours either, but that's the new you.
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@charlescwcooke 3. You've now jumped back and forth between the two - one about the statistics of whether we'd all be safer, and the other about whether I should look down on American gun culture - as it suited you. You're the one being slippery here, arguing that I linked the two. I didn't.
@charlescwcooke 4. You are going out of your way to take offense at my personal distaste for people who feel the need to carry a loaded binky around all day. That's an irresolvable difference of opinion, even if I think you're play-acting your part of it.
5. I have no problem with armed professionals guarding public places. I have a lot of problems with ordinary citizens on the prowl waiting for their John Woo moment. My distaste for that has nothing to do with stats; I just am not comfortable with people who're in love with guns.
6. But you've now reached the "you're lying about the way you lied about this thread in which you lied," and you're right. There's no point in this discussion. Because it was never a discussion to begin with.
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