Coorelation does not equate to causation
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You’re right, it doesn’t! But like most peer reviewed statistical research in established publications, this one uses well know methodology to conclude a strong likelihood of causation. It doesn’t just makes conclusions from an observed correlation :)
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More criminals, more armed homeowners. Cops respond to one more than the other.
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What are the ownership requirements in the high-gun states? I suspect that they lack proper licening and eduction before allowing purchase. Proper education makes a HUGE difference.
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breaking news: accidents more frequent on roads used by cars.
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Not surprising since Police would have to operate under fear of guns. This is what happens when the states monopoly over overwhelming force is compromised.
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Aww, those poor little police officers. How dare they be a little afraid, even though their job is to enforce the tyranny of government and happen to have an incredibly safe profession. Deaths per capita is quite low for police officers. Ever consider Mr. Dr. that there's a
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confounding factor here? Perhaps those people in this area have more guns because THEY fear for their lives, and there's more police activity because there's more crime? Actually, there's a good point: those who will be hardest hit by more gun regs are those in impoverished areas
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"Hardest hit"? So you don't think that a lower frequency of gun ownership would decrease the risk of someone shooting in an uncertain situation? To me it seems quite plausible. Any idea how to set up a study to tell the proposed effects and causes apart?
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What I think is that there are other means of hurting people than guns and that you need to rely on science rather than emotional jerking off and a murderous police force to implement your statist wet dreams.
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Gun violence is a public health issue, same as measles or the flu, etc. We need to use the same kind of scientific approach to dealing with it.
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That would include investigating causes and effects, wouldn't it? So investigating how prevalence of gun ownership influences gun violence seems legit to me. Or what do you propose?
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Except that police death rate and death rate of the average person is not the same. Also, you made the very basic mistake of confusing correlation and causation. Oops.
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What a brilliant identification strategy. Look at correlations! What about instrumenting for gun ownership or looking at a diff-diff design after changes in regulation or..but its like this will show nothing. This is unpublishable in an economics journal.
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Surprise.
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"the paper focuses on the states where fatal police shootings occur, not whether some, any, or all of the shootings were justifiable or preventable." That makes it rather less interesting TBH.
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“I’m sure Harvard did wonderfully unbiased research”. I wonder what the stats are for countries where commoners can’t have guns at all. Like Venezuela or Brazil or Mexico?
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Everybody can own a gun in Brazil.
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