2damnold4this
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I thought this might be interesting to look at in light of the recent interest in enacting gun control laws. The gist is there is no correlation between a state's gun laws and its homicide rate:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/?tid=sm_fb
There’s been much talk recently — including from President Obama — about there being a substantial correlation between state-level gun death rates and state gun laws. Now correlation obviously doesn’t equal causation; there may be lots of other factors that are the true causes of both of the things that are being measured. But if we do look for now at correlation, it seems to me that the key question should focus on state total homicide rates, or perhaps (for reasons I describe below) total intentional homicide plus.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-homicide-rate-and-state-gun-laws/?tid=sm_fb
There’s been much talk recently — including from President Obama — about there being a substantial correlation between state-level gun death rates and state gun laws. Now correlation obviously doesn’t equal causation; there may be lots of other factors that are the true causes of both of the things that are being measured. But if we do look for now at correlation, it seems to me that the key question should focus on state total homicide rates, or perhaps (for reasons I describe below) total intentional homicide plus.....