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Edwird -> RE: San Bernardino shooting: Boy, 8, and two adults dead (4/12/2017 1:21:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire
I think when you get to a level known as 95% confidence - it has a few other names let alone 98% or 99% levels, regarding the application - then there may be a bit of a problem.
Your arguments are invalid let me show you - up until the moment they are utilised, always wrongly 99% of the time, they are what you term as responsible owners lets play with that - let ever country chemical weapon up, nuke up - well perhaps not America.
There is a .002 percent confidence interval of your capacity for understanding anything about statistics. Being optimistic, at that.
Looking at 2016 numbers , there were 58,442 gun incidents, of which 45,705 resulted in injury or death. Which out of a population of ~326 million amounts to 0.018 percent gun incidents for the year, 0.0046 % resulting in death, and 0.0094 % resulting in injury. Still too many, no one would disagree, but in the vast majority of neighborhoods in the USA, 'gun incidents' are far more rare than the above numbers indicate.
In the matter of use of firearms for purpose of causing harm, wackos are wackos, and if a gun not be available they easily resort to a knife or crowbar or hammer or large screwdriver or hardwood chair to the same end.
Correlation does not necessarily equate to causation, as we know, but there is nevertheless an unmistakable correlation between increase in prescription psychiatric drugs and increase in violence of all sorts, notable especially with teens and young adults.
As for the ~22,000 suicides by gun, I will say that if a person is so miserable as to want to end his/her existence, I'm glad they have a neat and quick device for that purpose. In the pre-gun days, the methods of hara-kiri, jumping off a cliff, jumping in front of a train, etc. (poor Mrs. Karenina) were far more painful and horrific.
I am against guns otherwise supplied only to armies being allowed to citizens in the US, but I'm OK with nearly every household in Switzerland (Die Schweiz) having same, because the Swiss are taking far less drugs and eating far less trans-fats and monosodium glutamate and imbibing far less aspartame ('diet' colas).
And where is all this alleged 'gun culture in the US' coming from? Why don't you ask the Swedes and Canadians and Finlanders and Siberians and Norwegians about all that? In fact it's you who watches too many movies and takes them too seriously.
Living in my neighborhood in my other city, I aurally witnessed a 'gun incident' on a weekly basis, hearing the so-called 'celebratory gunfire' let loose by drunkards and crack heads emptying the magazine into the sky, a mile or two away. Not the best example of responsible gun ownership, suffice it to say, but even still, no one was injured from that weekend raucous display. The same guy feeling angry the next day would more likely take a broken chair leg to somebody's head than a gun.
You could be more accurate and discuss the increase in violence in the US, but even then, the issue is confined to certain areas and demographics, especially the sugared breakfast cereals and alarming increase in prescription psychiatric drugs foisted upon young children and teens demographic. Not the best combo, there. Then they go out in the world weaponized with sharp pencils and facebook revenge agendas, with dietetically and medically altered brain chemistry.
So, yeah.
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