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In reply to the discussion: Giving Gun Reform a Shot [View all]DonP
(6,185 posts)21. Former Teaching Assistant of Dr. Kellerman?
Sounds like they used the same technique.
Find an area with a concentrated criminal population to study, to skew the results. Treat the sample as representative of the entire universe. Extrapolate results to get the numbers you want and that the Joyce Foundations will pay you for. Publish in a journal that sounds official but most people won't recognize as not peer reviewed.
Yup, works every time.
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re: "The world must look very strange from those high school windows"
discntnt_irny_srcsm
May 2012
#9
That study in PA did not distinguish between legal and illegal carriers.
GreenStormCloud
May 2012
#19
Yeah, and Alabama and Georgia are two of the few states l might consider carrying.
Hoyt
May 2012
#34
We have the highest per-capita count of PhDs in the country here in Huntsville.
Atypical Liberal
May 2012
#39