Political Fixation On Statistics

Conservatives and liberals love to cite statistics that they subjectively find persuasive or that they expect to have an impact on other people, as if they can actually prove that those statistics are accurate, and as if any accurate statistics supersede the necessary truths of logic that are directly knowable and absolutely certain in themselves.  To dwell on "statistical probabilities" is folly because there are necessary truths (the laws of logic and what follows from them) and probabilistic, contingent, happenstance variables, the latter of which are not true by default like logical truths and are not even verifiable by beings with human limitations.  No matter what, they are ultimately irrelevant to the metaphysical, moral, and epistemological nature of something.

How many people choose to use guns in one way or another, for better or for worse, is always irrelevant to the actual nature of guns themselves, as well as the nature of moral obligation.  The nature of weaponry, including firearms of all kinds, is what it is no matter how it is misperceived or acted upon by any number of people.  As such, it does not matter how many people safely use guns they own or if they avoid using firearms for the likes of robbery or murder; guns are morally permissible or not apart from how they are wielded by individuals or the masses.  It also does not matter how many people might use guns to intentionally harm others or themselves, brimming with malice; guns, again, are morally permissible or not regardless of how they are used.

How many people drive cars, drive them recklessly, or wind up in vehicle-based accidents has nothing to do with whether it is obligatory, permissible, or evil to drive a car.  The number of people who drink alcohol or specifically sink into alcoholism has nothing to do with whether drinking, selling, or making alcohol is immoral.  Is the thing itself evil?  If so, then it does not matter how carefully one could use it.  It would be evil to do so either way.  If not, then it does not matter how dangerous one can be with it.  It would be permissible to possess or use it.  Statistics are irrelevant to logically necessary truths and the metaphysical nature of a thing, just as they are also unverifiable except in cases of direct perception (and even then, only the perception itself is known), such as if five out of seven people standing in front of a person are Hispanic.

There is absolutely no way to know if hearsay about how many people use guns or vehicles or alcohol in a certain way is true.  If so, it only reflects the arbitrary, shifting actions of various individuals and not the nature of those objects or activities anyway.  Statistics are not relevant to the morality of gun ownership.  To focus on guns again, firearms are not positive or evil because of statistics, whether they are true or false (though they must be assumed either way if a person believes them).  The conservatives and liberals who believe or cite them are only making assumptions, and when bringing them up as if they have metaphysical or epistemological authority, they are merely repeating rhetorical talking points from news sources instead of just looking to the laws of logic and relevant concepts.  They are strangers to philosophical accuracy.