Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Derails My Post About Barry Obama the Trojan Horse
It’s true. I have a post in draft about how our president is an unwitting Trojan Horse. Now, you’ll have to wait for my astute insight into that meta-meme I’m going to float.
This got my boxers in a bunch: Instead of arguing about guns on Twitter, Neil deGrasse Tyson just laid out the numbers.
As a world-famous scientist, Neil deGrasse Tyson is known for his dispassionate embrace of cold, hard facts…
…which makes him the right person to address a controversial topic: the abnormally high number of Americans who die from gun violence.
Yesterday afternoon, he composed three tweets where he laid out the numbers.
And they’re sobering.
Oh, they’re sobering, alright.
1.4 Million: Americans who died in all Wars fought since 1776.
1.4 Million: Americans who died via household Guns since 1968
400,000: Americans who died fighting in World War II.
400,000: Americans who died by household Firearms since 2001
3,400: Americans who died by Terrorism since 2001
3,400: Americans who died by household Firearms since five weeks ago.
I’m not going to quibble with the numbers as presented. Because it doesn’t matter. It’s a scale thing, because Neil left off a statistic, see. He cherry picked the data in order to advance the narrative he wanted to advance. I guess it was his day off as a scientist.
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