Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle

Re:Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-pow... by BryantD on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:34PM (#5476079)

We've slipped from "every mass shooting" to "in many cases." I thought your comment was worth researching, and I should note that I found more mass shootings taking place in gun-free zones than I'd expected -- I'm glad you made the point. But I would also suggest that you may be accepting the research done by gun rights partisans with less skepticism than it deserves.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?398679-62-Mass-S... is I think my final point here; it's a sympathetic gun rights advocate who went to the trouble of tracking and linking local ordinances where possible. He's only proven the case in about half the incidents. I know John Lott claims he researched all of them. If you happen to know where his supporting documentation is I'd be sincerely interested.

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Re:Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-pow... by bmelton on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:45PM (#5476162)

You may be right. I'm looking at an MAIG report, and while I trust their analysis even less, it clearly points to newer incidents that I was previously unaware of. This may be an overlap on the data, as I'm quoting a fairly old study, or it may be that the study was incomplete.

I might be looking at a full on amendment here, or there may have been more statistical jiggery pokery that somehow excludes findings incongruent with the expected results. Either way, I'll do more research and get back. Thanks for the correction -- while the link you posted isn't necessarily conclusive, it did spur me to freshen my data sets at the very least.

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