Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS
Yes, you’ve made it easy.
You continue to erroneously assert that a study showing a relationship between firearms ownership and firearms related deaths has something conclusive to say about a relationship between firearms ownership and the rate of any and all murders, excluding non-murder deaths by firearm, and including murders by means of other firearms. You’re not only generalizing from the specific, you’re tossing out a number of your specifics before doing so.
You NEVER refuted Unseen’s original point, you’ve misrepresented the study (I will concede that you may not have done so intentionally, but honestly, I thought you were smart enough to see the error) as supporting the opposite conclusion from Unseen’s, and then you’ve resorted to attempts to ensnare me in word games to fog this fundamental error on your part.
I’ve attempted to explain, three or four times, why this is an error, and I’ve even drawn a diagram, which you ignored.
