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In reply to the discussion: Yet Another Responsible Gun Owner Shoots His Own Penis [View all]Gravitycollapse
(8,155 posts)"It is 100% accurate in all cases."
No one with even a cursory understanding of statistics would suggest that statistical trends don't matter because of the possibility that an unlikely scenario might happen. You are suggesting a deductive solution to a matter of inductive risk. That is the exact opposite of what it means to consider statistical probability. There Is no such thing as 100% certainty in statistics.
Thus, I could now suggest that you are not a murderer right up to the point that you murder someone and that would be a ridiculous claim because it presupposes an outcome to an event which has not happened yet. Statistics are predictors, not prophecy. And you are not a prophet.
So any claim that you can know a possible future is complete and total nonsense.
If you want to make an argument about the trend of responsibility among gun owners, you have to follow the rules of statistics. Otherwise, you just end up sounding utterly foolish and making the movement look bad.