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Gun Control & RKBA

AndyS

(14,559 posts)

12. Just data.

Reply to SYFROYH (Reply #11)

Sat Oct 14, 2023, 12:35 PM

Oct 2023

It seems that every time a state passes Stand Your Ground laws the homicide rate increases 15% over the next two years.

It is the same for Political Carry. 15% over two years.

Pass 'em both and 30% over two years.

Just data, just numbers, just a fact that more guns means more death and misery.

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Hmmm, what happened in the last year or so . . . [View all] AndyS Oct 2023 OP

I'm going to love it when SCOTUS enables constitutional carry everywhere The Mouth Oct 2023 #1

Didn't violent crime overall go up? yagotme Oct 2023 #2

Shhh........... Harold Shea Oct 2023 #3

Supposedly I can't harsh him anymore. yagotme Oct 2023 #4

I don't think he blocked you. If he had, you wouldn't be able to see his posts. nt CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2023 #5

I thought blocking someone meant you couldn't see their posts, yagotme Oct 2023 #6

My understanding is that it goes both ways. I could be wrong. nt CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2023 #7

I don't know. yagotme Oct 2023 #8

I think he's blocking you the old fashioned way... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2023 #9

Possibly, possibly... yagotme Oct 2023 #10

So what is your hypothesis about the causal connection? SYFROYH Oct 2023 #11

Just data. AndyS Oct 2023 #12

Ok, so correlational reasons. SYFROYH Oct 2023 #13