You are using the same straw man logic most pro gun people do, but so do also must anti gun people. Anybody who looks a bit deeper soon realizes the problem : we can have a society with a lot of gun owners and next to no gun violence if you regulate guns reasonably and responsibly. But instead you people argue general ban or no ban, acting as if that…

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This article wasn’t about solutions, it was about data visualization and irresponsible media practices. You might find the rest of the series of articles enlightening, which build a case towards specific solutions to the actual problems we identify within the statistics. If you don’t want to read the…

I’ve been trying to get people to understand this stuff for years.

Besides the correlations (or lack thereof) in static data, you can also look at how homicide rates trend over time in response to changes in gun policy. Go back about 50 years, and most other developed countries had gun laws much more on par with those in the…

Tried to respond once but Medium ate it. Hopefully this one sticks.

I think you’re absolutely correct on all counts. Right now I’m working on a followup article, which may turn into several more, really breaking down the differences within “gun deaths” numbers and how the “gun deaths” numbers are presented by the media. The…

Your grasp of the statistics is so flawed it hurts me, but here’s the thing… No one who is serious about reducing the number of gun deaths in the US is trying to claim that it’s all about homicide, it’s about all gun deaths.

Also, while mass shootings are a tiny fraction of the total number of gun deaths, they are utterly…

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If you’d like to show some mathematics supporting a bivariate correlation between gun ownership and homicide, please do so. Put it up on Medium.

This article was not a “solutions” article, it was a media criticism article. All of the issues you bring up are covered elsewhere…

I really don’t need maths to work out that less guns in private hands leads to less deaths involving guns.

No one who is serious about gun control in the US (whether within or in my case without) is couching it in terms of homicides.

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I really don’t need maths to work out that less guns in private hands leads to less deaths involving guns.

No one who is serious about gun control in the US (whether within or in my case without) is couching it in terms of homicides.

So many things wrong with these disingenuous statistics but let’s start with one simple false assertion:

“If you’re going to kill yourself anyway, and you happen to have a gun in the house, then you choose that method out of convenience.”

Check out the followup article, Darren:

In fact, suicide rates in women have no relation to gun ownership. The higher rate of suicide by gun in women who own guns is exactly…

There is so much to unpack in your three essays. I retweeted them and will post the links on Quora. It is not just an indictment of the gun debate but on honest discussion of social policy on several levels. You’ve touched on the drug war, gangs, suicides, income inequality, which indirectly hits education and inner city issues as well as news and…

Thank you for the Quora recommendation.

I actually started doing these things a few weeks ago because I was sick and tired of having to make the same arguments over and over on Facebook to my friend circle, and wanted a way to easily crosspost a link showing what I’d uncovered on my own prior. That’s my only motivation. I’m…

There is clear evidence that strictness of gun control measures (not just number of guns) by state shows a strong correlation of reduced gun deaths. Yes this includes Suicides too, which is ok with me because I believe it is an important part of this debate. Speaking personally, I’ve had 3 people I know commit suicide this way, and 1 by other means.

I talk extensively about the suicide issue in my second article, Jay. You might like it. (or you might not, which is fine)

One thing concerns me here. All mathematical proofs start with known or assumed data. Sure, we have voluminous statistics on the rate of gun ownership in America. The problem is how accurate are they?

Conservative gun owners for years have become increasingly secretive about giving up information about whether they own a gun…

It’s probably impossible to get hard data on gun ownership in America. What’s worse when the issue is studied we’re dealing with social science methodologies, which means the absence of disinterested researchers. Even in hard science it’s almost a norm for the researcher to come to the data with an idea or a theory he wants to prove. In any social…

Check this out, on “the natural selection of bad science.” Fits some of your thinking on this path.

BJ Campbell,

You are so wrong! Just read the C.D.C. report they did for Obama (The CDC requested the study to identify research goals after Obama issued his January 2012 executive order).

If you want to stop schools shooting put in more security measuresand start committing the sick people like we…