Comments on: New (to me) Gun Blog http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: YetAnotherSam http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/comment-page-1/#comment-192657 YetAnotherSam Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:49:29 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/#comment-192657 damninteresting has a piece on leaded gasoline, and notes that decrease in crime followed leaded gasoline ban by about 20 years. http://www.damninteresting.com/index.php?s=lead Way too many variables to ever know for sure. Sam damninteresting has a piece on leaded gasoline, and notes that decrease in crime followed leaded gasoline ban by about 20 years.

http://www.damninteresting.com/index.php?s=lead

Way too many variables to ever know for sure.

Sam

]]> By: Yu-Ain Gonnano http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/comment-page-1/#comment-192573 Yu-Ain Gonnano Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:35:45 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/#comment-192573 <i>Correlation and causation are but distant cousins. </i> Absolutely, you can't have causation without also having correlation, but you can certainly have correlation without having causation. And yet, despite not even having correlation, anti-gunners still proclaim more guns cause more crime. Correlation and causation are but distant cousins.

Absolutely, you can’t have causation without also having correlation, but you can certainly have correlation without having causation.

And yet, despite not even having correlation, anti-gunners still proclaim more guns cause more crime.

]]> By: karrde http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/comment-page-1/#comment-192570 karrde Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:23:57 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/#comment-192570 Aye, distant cousins indeed. It does not prove that the increase in firearms ownership decreased crime. (There's a running argument between two different sociologists as to whether abortion had an effect on these crime rates...for starters in looking at other factors that may affect the statistics.) But if firearms ownership increased crime, then there must be plenty of defective goods out there under the name "firearm." Aye, distant cousins indeed.

It does not prove that the increase in firearms ownership decreased crime. (There’s a running argument between two different sociologists as to whether abortion had an effect on these crime rates…for starters in looking at other factors that may affect the statistics.)

But if firearms ownership increased crime, then there must be plenty of defective goods out there under the name “firearm.”

]]> By: tgirsch http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/comment-page-1/#comment-192567 tgirsch Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:49:41 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/#comment-192567 Correlation and causation are but distant cousins. :) Correlation and causation are but distant cousins. :)

]]> By: Robert http://www.saysuncle.com/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/comment-page-1/#comment-192554 Robert Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:46:38 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/12/20/new_to_me_gun_blog-2/#comment-192554 Thanks Bush! Thanks Karl Rove! For growing government and making the Republican party safe for big-government goons! Thanks Bush! Thanks Karl Rove! For growing government and making the Republican party safe for big-government goons!

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