You need no fancy math for this.
Gun Threats and Self-Defense Gun Use
1-3. Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense We use epidemiological theory to explain why the “false positive” problem for rare events can lead to large overestimates of the i…www.hsph.harvard.edu
Not to worry, gun ownership also defends you against an onslaught of facts.
You need no fancy math for this.
1. If guns improved public safety, the USA would be the safest country on Earth. (Of course this is a fallacy, but follows the same logic pro-gun advocates use to show a correlation between increasing civilian guns and decreasing violent crime rates).
2. You would have to prove that armed households have lower homicide risks. You'll be shocked what meta-analysis of pooled data shows:
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The Accessibility of Firearms and Risk for Suicide and Homicide Victimization Among Household Members: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 160, No 2
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a Supplement. Background: Research suggests that access to firearms in the home increases the risk for violent death. Purpose: To understand current estimates of the association between firearm...www.acpjournals.org
Pooled hazard ratio is 2, meaning it is 2x more likely to be murdered if you have direct access to a gun. It's 3-fold if you happen to be a female. One can always argue that those living in less safe neighborhoods purchase guns, but yet again, this means that the guns did a horrible job cancelling out neighborhood crime rates. Considering how these number look in other Western nations it's quite clear what the issue is.
Police: 2 Dead, Over 20 Injured In Banquet Hall Shooting In Florida
The banquet hall had been rented out for a concert and authorities believe the shooting was targeted.www.npr.org
Ah..
The most irritating thing is that these people's stupidity diffuses to other neighborhoods and guns are like the material manifestation of that stupidity. On reddit somebody said that rural white gun owners are doing everything right and minorities ruin the reputation of legal gun owners. Since then, I found this:
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U.S. Judge Overturns California's Ban On Assault Weapons
Judge Rodger Benitez ruled that the state was unlawfully depriving Californians of weapons allowed in most other states and by the Supreme Court. Gov. Gavin Newsom has condemned the decision.
Sure, an AR-15 is just like a Swiss Army knife. This judge‘s ruling is so antithetical to every other ruling on gun regulations… if judges keep ruling that the “well regulated” part of the 2nd amendment no longer applies, we will have to amend the constitution!
In his argument, he says being killed by a knife is 7x more likely than being killed with an AR-15. If true, doesn’t that mean the law banning assault weapons is having the intended effect? This guy is bought and paid for by the NRA.
This swiss army analogy sounded like it came from some marketing material...
This is what pisses me off. Their free-for-all gun bullshit will supply the surrounding states with illegal guns, and then they'll say that gun regulation doesn't work. And when I point it out, I'll be told that "liberalism is a mental sickness" (happened before).
