Packing heat gets you shot, say profs

Posted by billpg on Monday October 05, 2009 @11:36AM
from the theregister.co.uk dept.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/04/guns_attract_bullets/

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Re:Packing heat gets you shot, say profs by newsdog on Monday October 05, 2009 @01:06PM (#862148)

not true - those guys got shot due to their gansta lifestyle, guns were orthogonal to that

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Re:Packing heat gets you shot, say profs by CWuestefeld on Monday October 05, 2009 @04:53PM (#862751)

Right. The only explanation offered for the shootings was muggings. I wonder how much that explains, though. There are certainly those, but also gangsta stuff as the parent post notes; crimes of passion; drunken idiots; and on and on.

Seems like a stupid study, as we really can't draw any kind of conclusions from it.

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Re:Packing heat gets you shot, say profs by nazgulnarsil on Monday October 05, 2009 @01:09PM (#862155)

academic standards mysteriously lower when the topic is political.

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