RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
January 15, 2014 at 2:25 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2014 at 2:28 am by Mudhammam.)
(January 14, 2014 at 10:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: From your site:
Quote:Our results ended up indicating, depending on which figures you prefer to use, anywhere from 800,000 on up to 2.4, 2.5 million defensive uses of guns against human beings -- not against animals -- by civilians each year.
Uh-huh!
I also don't think I would call two still bleeding dead bodies an "anecdote."
But both of the motherfuckers stood their ground and exercised their fucking rights, didn't they?
"The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases." Yeah..I'd say your news story fits the bill. Is murder a new phenomenon to you or something? I'm pretty sure people (and animals) kill each other every day without the assistance of guns.