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DraconisRex · 04-04-2003, 01:51 PM

"Warning - misleading statistic."

Warning - misleading board member.

These results also hold true for strict urban comparisons. Vancouver, Canada is 60 miles north of Seattle, Washington. We have the same murder-rate pattern in two geographically proximate, culturally proximate cities with only one measurable difference:

The accessibility to firearms.

Sloan JH, Kellerman AL, et al. Handgun regulations, crime, assaults and homicide: a tale of two cities. New Engl J Med 1985;319:1256-62.

And, of course, we ignore Japan which is almost all urban, with a lower, but similar non-firearm rate and a firearm murder rate of 0.03 and has nearly no accessibility to firearms...

Ooops....

"But, of course, taking guns away from people will lower the homicide rate. Taking cars away will lower the number of drunk driving fatality rates, too. So will taking alcohol away. Removing knives from the population will certain decrease deaths due to stabbing. And, cutting everyone's eyes out would certainly hurt the pornography industry. "

Yes, and if we took everyone's air away, they wouldn't exhale CO2 green-house gases. yeah yeah yeah. Another obfiscating arguement from the shallow end of the debate pool.

04-04-2003, 01:51 PM	#10
DraconisRex Avatar Join Date: January 4, 2002 Location: On my rear-end. Posts: 563	"Warning - misleading statistic." Warning - misleading board member. These results also hold true for strict urban comparisons. Vancouver, Canada is 60 miles north of Seattle, Washington. We have the same murder-rate pattern in two geographically proximate, culturally proximate cities with only one measurable difference: The accessibility to firearms. Sloan JH, Kellerman AL, et al. Handgun regulations, crime, assaults and homicide: a tale of two cities. New Engl J Med 1985;319:1256-62. And, of course, we ignore Japan which is almost all urban, with a lower, but similar non-firearm rate and a firearm murder rate of 0.03 and has nearly no accessibility to firearms... Ooops.... "But, of course, taking guns away from people will lower the homicide rate. Taking cars away will lower the number of drunk driving fatality rates, too. So will taking alcohol away. Removing knives from the population will certain decrease deaths due to stabbing. And, cutting everyone's eyes out would certainly hurt the pornography industry. " Yes, and if we took everyone's air away, they wouldn't exhale CO2 green-house gases. yeah yeah yeah. Another obfiscating arguement from the shallow end of the debate pool. __________________ Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?<br /><br />Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.<br /><br />Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!