George Zimmerman's attorneys won't use "stand your ground" defense

[DanTex]

45. It's always funny...

In real life, I read and discuss a lot of scientific papers, and I'm used to people who read them, understand them, and come up with intelligent comments. Then I come into the gungeon, post a study, and run into a whole mob of people like you who can't and often don't bother even trying to understand the content, but instead scan for one sentence you can parse in order to sow as much doubt as possible on the politically inconvenient conclusion that you want to avoid. It's really an, umm, interesting change of pace!

Again, the study found a total increase of 500 to 700 homicides, and (at most) 50 of them were justifiable. And, even if you jiggle the assumptions around, there's no plausible way to get that 50, which by the way, is already the top end of the confidence interval, up into the range of 500 to 700 where it would explain all of the homicides. These numbers are different orders of magnitude.

If it makes you feel better that it's only "likely" that SYG causes an increase in non-justifiable homicide and not an absolute certainty, good for you. Since essentially nothing is an absolute certainty, particularly statistical conclusions which are inherently probabilistic, this isn't really an earth-shattering revelation worthy of the multiple-page rants and random tangents about Isaac Newton. Particularly given that a second independent study has come to similar findings.

Still, all things are possible. You are unlikely to win the lottery tomorrow, but you never know...