big kahuna wrote:
So: Has anyone's mind -- pro-gun or anti-gun -- been changed as regards the issues under discussion? Didn't think so. I'd say that'll be the case nationwide, as well -- absent a few do-gooders on either side of the equation.
"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof." - John Kenneth Galbraith
Then there's this, which is why I now generally try to disengage from these debates (though, clearly with limited success today):
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
"100% of the people who confuse correlation and causation end up dying."