(May 31, 2023 at 2:12 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: If you tell me that 800k people brandished a weapon at other people every year then I'm going to go out on a limb and say there are a fair few more than 400k gun crimes in that same year. It looks like the number could actually approach 1.2million gun crimes a year. Anywho, your papers author omits studies that conclude there are around 70-80k DGUs a year accounting for unreporteds..and that might have an effect on your "math" amigo.
Thing is, even taken at face value, the study can't give you those numbers. If you do the most rudimentary adjustments to observed fact then what you'd actually end up with, with that methodology, is surprisingly close to the number of dgus that credible studies report. Right around 70-80k. A bit by accident, but that might be better than being wrong on purpose.
I must say I can't follow your reasoning. I guess that you, just like Levy, in face of empirical evidence that contradicts your beliefs, slip into intricate theoretical reasoning. Read up on this, maybe it will be enlighting (as it was to me): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit..._criticism
