Miami Herald Misdiagnoses Murder in Caribbean

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 13:00:55 | Updated at 2024-11-22 21:18:41 8 hours ago

Miami Herald Misdiagnoses Murder in Caribbean
AmmoLand ^ | November 20, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 11/22/2024 4:33:14 AM PST by marktwain

In the November 14 edition of the Miami Herald, in an article titled: Report: Majority of trafficked guns in Caribbean are from the U.S., shipped from Florida, reporters Jacqueline Charles and Jay Weaver claim a lack of restrictive gun laws in the United States cause high murder rates in Caribbean countries. From the article:

A new report from the U.S. government’s lead investigator on gun trafficking in the Caribbean area is confirming what region leaders have long said: Most of the firearms wreaking havoc in their vulnerable nations and being used in 90% of the homicides are coming from the United States.

Note the premise included in the misuse of the English language in the opening sentence: the firearms wreaking havoc.

Firearms do not wreak havoc. This is an Orwellian distortion of the language. A firearm is an inanimate object. Guns do not cause harm. Firearms do not have a will of their own.

The correct usage would be: People in vulnerable nations are wreaking havoc with firearms. This is important. Semantics are important. You must correctly understand cause and effect if you are to solve a problem. If you confuse cause and effect, your attempts to solve problems will almost certainly fail. You will attempt to change an effect rather a cause. Occasionally, simply by chance, an action taken with the wrong assumption may line up with a real cause.

Firearms do not cause murders and violent crimes. The evidence does not support this assumption. Firearms numbers vary wildly across the globe, including in the Caribbean. Firearms laws vary wildly across the globe and the Caribbean as well. Murders and violent crime vary wildly as well. There is no correlation between them.

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The Left, in general, has a difficult time in understanding the arrow of causation. They often reverse the arrow, confusing effects with causes.

1 posted on 11/22/2024 4:33:14 AM PST by marktwain

To: marktwain

They’re mostly shallow morons controlled by a few clever puppetmasters. The left has the same old playbook everywhere. The sad thing is, it works on abiut a third of the population everywhere.

Like every country has cat ladies, every country has knuckle dragging, foaming at the mouth useful idiots commie simps.

2 posted on 11/22/2024 4:38:18 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Democracy is dead. Long live the Republic!)

To: marktwain

The accidentally pushed the narrative that the Caribbean is a crime-laden “shitehole”.

3 posted on 11/22/2024 4:40:47 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)

To: marktwain

Sounds like a trafficking issue to me, not a production issue.

4 posted on 11/22/2024 4:47:15 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)

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