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correlation != causality If someone has threatened you with a gun or you live in an area with increased gun violence, I would expect that greatly increases the
by cwkoss 7y ago
correlation != causality
If someone has threatened you with a gun or you live in an area with increased gun violence, I would expect that greatly increases the chances that you'd want to acquire your own. This cohort would already be at a much higher risk of gun death before they owned a gun as well.
There has never been a placebo controlled double blind study on gun ownership. Probably never will be because of ethical concerns.
It probably does increase risk, but I expect the effect size is much lower than 2-3x.
- mav3rick 7y agoHow about no one has guns ?
- cwkoss 7y agoHow about we fund mental healthcare nationally, reduce wealth inequality, and end racial disparity in policing first? Until then, an attempt to ban all guns is not only a politically infeasible waste of energy, but also seems like a racist attack on the self-defense rights of the disempowered.
- mav3rick 7y ago"What about...". There are mass shootings in schools every year. How about we solve the problems you mentioned and the others in parallel. US spends enough on military budget , they can cut back and solve these. The disempowered don't need "white knights", they are the ones often dying to gun violence.