Weiser says:
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Absolute numbers are less important than the rate of change for
gun-owning
versus gun-banning societies, something that you deliberately choose to
ignore.
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I'm happy to revisit those statistics to examine rates of change. Like
you, I agree that those are valuable and important statistics.

Nonetheless, I think absolute figures do matter. Every one of those
"absolute" numbers represents some mother's child. Let's not speak of
these numbers too lightly.

frtzw906