Everybody’s Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 6:30 pm
Everybody’s Lying About the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide
He points out shenanigans the EveryTown et al use when the bend the numbers to support their narratives.
I've never run across this guy before, so I am not recommending wholesale belief right off the bat, but it is an interesting read.
Go forth and read. Warning: there is math (and statistics!) but you can see what's going on just from the text, so don't panic.There is no clear correlation whatsoever between gun ownership rate and gun homicide rate. Not within the USA. Not regionally. Not internationally. Not among peaceful societies. Not among violent ones. Gun ownership doesn’t make us safer. It doesn’t make us less safe. A bivariate correlation simply isn’t there. It is blatantly not-there. It is so tremendously not-there that the “not-there-ness” of it alone should be a huge news story.
And anyone with access to the internet and a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel can check for themselves. Here’s how you do it.
He points out shenanigans the EveryTown et al use when the bend the numbers to support their narratives.
I've never run across this guy before, so I am not recommending wholesale belief right off the bat, but it is an interesting read.
