Posted on 09/12/2013 7:46:51 PM PDT by Pharmboy
More people feel the need to be armed in places where there is more crime, and more criminals, like the South.
So Maryland should have a lower gun homicide rate than Wyoming.
(Wyoming has fewer homicides than Baltimore, populations being close to equal).
But I don't think they are aware of what they really saying.
“while controlling for a range of potential state-level confounding variables, including: age, gender, race/ethnicity, urbanization, poverty, unemployment, income, education, divorce rate, alcohol use, violent crime rate, nonviolent crime rate, number of hunting licenses, age-adjusted non-firearm homicide rate, incarceration rate, and suicide rate.”
No fudge factors here.
“of what they are really saying.”
Apparently, this study does not take into account how many homicides were committed with unlicensed gun owners vs licensed gun owners. Also, this study apparently doesn’t include how many lives were saved when a “legal” gun owner was able to prevent a homicide.
Anyone can make a “statistical” study proving any point. It all depends on how the study was conducted.
There are many “0bama” counties in the South, mostly along the fall line.
The ‘rats (Teton County went for Bammy) in WY are farther apart.
expect more of this hocus pocus from CDC studies the ‘bots will be bringing out soon.
Yes...I believe that is what they did: they lumped illegal weapons in with legal. Phony b*stards.
Hmmm lets see...
Chicago and Houston. Similar sized cities...
Chicago 512 murders in 2012...
Houston 216 murders in 2012...
hmmm gee just can’t wrap my head around this... these numbers should mean something... awww but I guess I haven’t “controlled” for age, race, income, education blah blah blah in other words no fudge factors!
Statistics don’t lie... Statisticians lie!!!
They’re probably including suicides within the homicide rates. Owning a gun might make it a little easier to commit suicide, but there are other ways to kill yourself. There have also been a couple of instances in the last few years where people went to a gun range, rented a gun and purposely shot themselves with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods#Firearms
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All this study says is that all things being equal, the more guns there are, the higher the number of people who get killed by a gun.
No shit Sherlock! If nobody owned a gun, of course the number of homicides by a gun would be 0 (I doubt there were too many gun homicides during the Stone Age!).
Of course, this study does absolutely nothing to get to the effectiveness of gun control as countries who have banned guns saw crime rates sky rocket as a) only criminals owned guns, and b) even with no guns criminals could still commit crime, knowing that the intended victim doesn’t have a gun.
Homicide is not necessarily murder.
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Well, shouldn't this be about suicide then?
No matter. The constitution protects the right of The People to keep and bear arms. There is nothing they can do about it.
Nothing.
A new study from the American Journal of Public Heath...
The start of the opening sentence gave it away: unprincipled anti-scientific Marxist propaganda.
After we restore our lost constitutional republic, squandering our hard-earned tax dollars on such moral and intellectual abominations will be prohibited by law.
Boston University, proxy variable, guesses, maybes, estimates.
Never let real data get in the way of quackery. In fact, there are more “quacks” in this whole affair than seen in “Duck Dynasty”.
““while controlling for a range of potential state-level confounding variables, including: age, gender, race/ethnicity, urbanization, poverty, unemployment, income, education, divorce rate, alcohol use, violent crime rate, nonviolent crime rate, number of hunting licenses, age-adjusted non-firearm homicide rate, incarceration rate, and suicide rate.”
No fudge factors here.”
Not in the least.
But - Finagles Invariable Constant was used, and used, and used, . . . . . .
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