I know he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but Piers Morgan really wowed me with his "logic"
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Piers: How many people have been shot in your restaurant since you've owned it?
Jay: Zero
Piers: So actually there's been no gun threat to your restaurant whatsoever.
The only threat now is because you're actually encouraging all these people, who may or may not be criminals or mentally insane people, from coming armed to the teeth with weapons; the likelyhood of there being an accident, or something, in your place - or somebody doing something stupid - has just massively increased.
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OK - logic & terminology 101.
1. One cannot imply an outcome without knowing the actual values of the variables. For instance, there is no measurement of who came in with guns before the "special", only who took advantage of the special after it was advertised.
2. One cannot go from "zero shootings" to "massively increased" threat since you still have zero shootings and, due to item 1, one doesn't know if the threat has actually massively increased - or increased at all. One can say "my threat has measurably increased or decreased" or that "I've gone from zero to 10 shootings (or 10 to zero)", but not that I've gone from zero shootings to increased threat. That is not a correlation.
3. "Armed to the teeth" is not a single 9mm handgun. Is one "armed to the teeth" if they are trained in deadly hand to hand combat? Armed to the teeth definition
4. Since there has been no study on offering a discount on pizza with gun violence, it is presumptive rather than logical to assume that it will lead to greater gun violence. I could just as easily submit that because those who bought pizza are fed (satisfying Maslow's first need) that they are less likely to be violent.
Piers - you're a fool and your logic doesn't come close to surviving the most cursory scrutiny.
Bring a gun? Get cheap pizza.
pus morgan is on the same level as jerry springer, what an idiot, they need to deport him so he isn't an eyesore to this country, I'm boycotting CNN from now on as I can't believe they would have such a non educated clown talking about gun stats, Hey Pus, I mean piers how many assualt weapons are used in chicago's death statistics this year so far??
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