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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by res0nat0r on Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:50PM (#8738616)
It isn't because gun ownership is up, it is stating that police shootings occur because of the mere fact that there are already more guns in the USA than any other first world country, thus police are more likely to encounter criminals with guns. We also have the highest gun homicide rate of any first world country. The two are directly related.
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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by Crito on Friday December 12, 2014 @03:07PM (#8742398)
> "it is stating that police shootings occur because of the mere fact that there are already more guns in the USA than any other first world country, thus police are more likely to encounter criminals with guns"

Police in America are less likely today to encounter guns than they were 40 years ago, but police shootings are apparently at all time highs. If their theory held water, that would not be the case.

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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by res0nat0r on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:18PM (#8746458)
The USA still has 300 million guns. This is far and beyond any other first world country, so yes this is in fact related to police in the USA more likely shooting first than they would in other countries which do not have such an insane saturation of guns like the USA.
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Re:The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement s... by Crito on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:55PM (#8763645)
When you have a hypothesis, you have to try making predictions with it and see if it fits real-world data. If it doesn't, then it is wrong. It doesn't matter how elegant or beautiful your hypothesis is, if it does not fit the data then it is wrong.

Your hypothesis does not fit the data.

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