10-06-2009, 05:34 AM
"All rapes to all rapes, all burglaries to ...., well you get the idea"
Obie was talking firearm deaths in the USA. So am I. Not rape in Israel or burglaries in Switzerland. Looking at the numbers, in the USA more guns = more firearm deaths; less guns = less firearm deaths. Correlation, not necessarily causation. It would be an interesting experiment to relax gun ownership restrictions in Hawaii and see how many more firearm deaths there are. Then again, maybe not such a good idea.
Obie was talking firearm deaths in the USA. So am I. Not rape in Israel or burglaries in Switzerland. Looking at the numbers, in the USA more guns = more firearm deaths; less guns = less firearm deaths. Correlation, not necessarily causation. It would be an interesting experiment to relax gun ownership restrictions in Hawaii and see how many more firearm deaths there are. Then again, maybe not such a good idea.