This argument is trotted out every time the gun violence issue comes up, but there's no veracity to it. The data is freely available. It's been several years si

This argument is trotted out every time the gun violence issue comes up, but there's no veracity to it. The data is freely available. It's been several years since I did this but I plotted gun ownership vs gun deaths per 100k population, by US state, from publicly available databases, and they correlate exactly. More guns = more gun deaths, full stop. It's not a matter of the data not being there to show this, it's more a matter of a really strong cognitive bias that prevents people from being willing to even consider the evidence that doesn't support their preconceptions. [edit] the graph came out looking like this https://twitter.com/73rhodes/status/915604039873769472 https://twitter.com/73rhodes/status/915604039873769472