Gun Control Crowd Safer? - and a control group

[LadyForCamus]

Boru’s post had everything to do with the OP. The point is the rally is stupid and unnecessary in the first place. As far as your “experiment” goes, one question is: can it be repeated? What if we repeated this experiment twelve times, and nine out of the twelve times a person from the “gun” group shot someone? Data of that nature paints a completely different picture, doesn’t it? You haven’t proved anything, and your grasp on how researchers collect and analyze data is rather tenuous if you think it does.

Absolutely.

Gun shows in Michigan routinely have between 10 and 20,000 people go through them.

While you are not supposed to carry in a gun show - it's common knowledge that at least half the people there are carrying. Not to mention that there are guns and ammo EVERYWHERE...if somebody decided to kill some people - it would happen.


There is over a 100 shows a year at different venues - and the have been going on for over 75 years.

There has never been an incident to my knowledge - and I have asked.

This wasn't the exception.

It's the rule.

A gun show is not a protest. I don’t think you understand how repeatability in scientific research works. Just because you used the word “control” doesn’t mean you’ve necessarily describing a clinical trial, OB. What you provided was an anecdote, and nothing more.