Lets spend a hundred thousand dollars on research to uncover whether water is REALLY wet or just pretending.
No, no. We need to back up obvious things with data, so we can show that they’re absolutely real. Scientific studies are much stronger evidence than anecdotal experience, including when they point to the same result.
Especially because gun research is so heavily limited in this country- any actual gun research is valuable.
White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says