Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by rbcgerard on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:24PM
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Except if you use the metric of murder or violent crime instead of gun deaths you find that there its much more complicated
Vermont = lots of guns and safe
Louisiana = lots of guns and unsafe
Hawaii = not so many guns and safe
Illinois = not so many guns and unsafe...
Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by foxhound6 on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:07PM
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And more cars = more car accidents and more multi-story homes = more people falling down the stairs. As a society, we're concerned with overall safety and reducing overall violence and crime metrics.
Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by notheguyouthink on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:31PM
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While an interesting metric, a sample size of 3 (states) seems insanely low to draw cause between guns carry == safety. There has to be more meaningful ways to glean that data, no?
May as well tie it into most popular music if we're using sample sizes that small.
Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by foxhound6 on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:03PM
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I wasn't making the argument that more people carrying == safety. I was countering the argument that more people carrying inherently means less safety.
Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by c22 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:54AM
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But the argument you responded to was that more guns were related to more gun deaths. You might as well have countered any tangential "argument".
Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic...
by notheguyouthink on Friday December 29, 2017 @05:25PM
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Fair enough, apologies for my confusion :)
Five states with lowest rates of gun death: Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_Uni...)
States with constitutional carry: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho (residents only), Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota (residents only; concealed carry only), Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_carry#U.S._juri...)