The MMM spokeswoman snootily retorted that her own view of statistics was different. Not that she actually knew any statistics, or had read a single study on the subject. Photos show a crowd on the Washington Mall numbering in the tens of thousands. This is not a result to be expected if there actually were an anti-gun citizen movement which could mobilize a crowd of close to a million. Scientists are not the only ones who need to remember that honesty requires exertion.
All citizens do.
We must make gun policy based on facts, not counter-factual emotions. We must count all readable votes, then stop, regardless of whether our candidate won or lost. Surely we can exert ourselves sufficiently to refrain from using fudge factors and pretending that they are corrections. If we cannot, we deserve not to be citizens, but to be mere subjects. If we care so little that we allow election results and our personal safety decisions to be distorted to suit those in power, we deserve to be ruled, not governed.