Stubborn Facts and Pliable Statistics

Two years after the election, gun sales are still going through the roof.

Two years after the boom in sales, violent crime is still dropping.

As I’ve pointed out before, correlation does not equal causation. We can’t attribute the drop in crime to an increase in gun sales. What we can show, however, is that a vast increase in civilian gun ownership does not lead to more crime.

In other news, Eric Holder’s trotting out the race card:

This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him, both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.

“Nature of the relationship?” Like being the Attorney General of the United States? Or maybe it’s due to the fact that he’s so incompetent he can’t keep rogue elements in line, can’t orchestrate a decent coverup, and doesn’t have the political acumen to throw anyone under the bus, even if it means saving his own lying skin.

Or maybe it’s just that wretched walrus mustache.