Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade

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The point is that outright gun prohibition will, if the Gary Kleck's 1995 study is anywhere close to right (and I see no reason to think it's wrong by an order of magnitude), massively increase the risk of gun deaths, rather than decrease it. Gun prohibition which is supposed to make us safer would make us far less safe.

His study isn't right though so this point is moot

Well, if a large sample size is what makes a study rigorous, then his study is more rigorous than any study in comparative linguistics can possibly be (as there are only 5'000 languages out there). If the p-value is what makes a study rigorous, then again it's way more rigorous than the vast majority of studies in comparative linguistics are (as most studies in comparative linguistics don't even try to calculate the p-value), and probably even more rigorous than my study is, since its p-value is estimated to be somewhere between 1/300 and 1/17, and I am quite sure his is even lower (although, to be honest, I haven't read his study). So, yeah, if you reject the Gary Kleck's study, in order to be consistent, you probably have to reject the entire field of comparative linguistics.