Gun Control & RKBA

the band leader

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10. correlation does not imply causation.

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 02:38 PM

Jul 2015

let's just start with Alaska, at the top of your list. Alaska has one of the highest suicide rates in America and had a grand total of 19 gun murders in 2013. 19 gun murders. compare that to Maryland (which is conveniently not listed in the graph btw) where you will find some of the toughest gun control laws in the country and where 299 gun homicides occurred in 2013 despite those tough laws. California, also known for its tough gun laws, had 1,312 gun homicides in 2013.

What's more, the gun violence in any given state is almost exclusively limited to a few very large cities in those states and revolves around gangs and drugs, again, almost exclusively. The people committing these murders are not going to be affected by gun control laws one bit nor are the people they're murdering.

This research is utterly worthless and serves as an example of why federal tax payer dollars may not be used to fund this kind of propaganda.

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Turns out guns do kill people [View all] libodem Jul 2015 OP

Yep Duckhunter935 Jul 2015 #1

I'm more about the meanful compilation libodem Jul 2015 #3

I see your point Duckhunter935 Jul 2015 #5

The DoJ through the NIJ has been doing that gejohnston Jul 2015 #9

If you remove suicides from the list, the chart looks vastly different. Travis_0004 Jul 2015 #2

Can you please share your thoughts Duckhunter935 Jul 2015 #4

I see your responce to Fred Duckhunter935 Jul 2015 #6

We're about to head to the range. ileus Jul 2015 #7

The problem is none of these are meaningful statistics gejohnston Jul 2015 #8

one sided claims from the J man jimmy the one Jul 2015 #18

2 pages of substance free horse shit gejohnston Jul 2015 #19

hiding in plain sight jimmy the one Jul 2015 #23

cat farts gejohnston Jul 2015 #24

correlation does not imply causation. the band leader Jul 2015 #10

murder she wrote jimmy the one Jul 2015 #15

43 total homicides in Alaska versus 234 homicides in Baltimore, Maryland. the band leader Jul 2015 #20

apples to oranges jimmy the one Jul 2015 #22

one group of people compared to another group of people the band leader Jul 2015 #25

apples to apples jimmy the one Jul 2015 #27

better sit down, BL jimmy the one Jul 2015 #28

harvard conservatives jimmy the one Jul 2015 #29

Anchorage & Alaska do not have the racial problems larger cities in conus do. the band leader Jul 2015 #26

an inconvenient truth, for band leader jimmy the one Jul 2015 #16

your circumlocutious nonsense does not advance your argument. the band leader Jul 2015 #21

340 million guns. 32,000 gun-related deaths per year, 100,000+ major injuries. Irrefutable. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #11

Improved mental healthcare would go a long way. Could we discuss that? Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #12

And the fact that correlation *does not* equal causation is also irrefutable. pablo_marmol Jul 2015 #13

Blah, blah, blah. Turns out guns actually save people as well. pablo_marmol Jul 2015 #14

Guns are designed to save/protect...some can't accept that fact. ileus Jul 2015 #17