You can probably find current examples in the popular media. I will not pursue examples of these here, as the best ones are the most recent ones and the ones you personally find most compelling. Do not present any controversial claim that you are not comfortable discussing. Ubi dubium ibi libertas. People in power sometimes do not like dissent, disapproval, discussion, or disbelief.
Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns. In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. Only a society with liberty allows open teaching and free use of inferential statistics, because a statistical test is inherently an expression of doubt. You could be wrong. Where there is doubt, there is freedom.