Quote (thesnipa @ 11 Nov 2018 17:34)
there has never been a study for a combination of it being so obvious one isn't needed and the difficulty of data collection. not for the least because respondents are violent criminals who have very little reason to answer honestly and the implications of such a study would be easy to read on the face of the question. i could write a 10 page paper on studies you can't do for just such a reason, and half of the studies i see from both sides are invalid for the same reason.
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if we want to have a SERIOUS discussion about gun violence, we will have to talk about what PERCENTAGE of gun crime is committed by democrats.- ok, what is the percentage?
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erm, well, there is no data, but you know, like, errrr... b-b-but face validity, a-a-and there is no way to get data on criminals - because they lie...i hope you don't actually think that's how it works, that's almost adorably naive. seriously though, you would have been better off just admitting that you were trying make a national issue somehow a partisan problem in order to create a flimsy excuses for the NRA funded party (but hey, that's just free speech and has no influence on policy at all, right?) that opposes ANY attempt to tackle the issue.
not that it made much sense to begin with because obviously you can't make policies based on party affiliation. by that 'logic' you might as well just target MEN - something that's scientifically actually supported...
This post was edited by fender on Nov 11 2018 01:47pm