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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 01:33 PM Original message |
WPost: Va. data show drop in criminal firepower during assault gun ban |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yet homicide rates have continued to drop. |
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sharesunited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 02:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Smoothing the curve seems to be your specialty. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Let's face it; with you it will never NOT be a major problem. |
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mwrguy (396 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 06:37 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. "oh lawdy lawdy"? |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 10:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I don't know... what kind of racist crap is it? |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 09:08 AM Response to Reply #18 |
27. Sounds like a slam against older southern white women to me |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sorry, but I don't beileve the WaPo about anything. FWIW, the |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. Yet the Clinton DOJ could find no credible drop in crimes committed using them.. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
4. uh oh |
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lawodevolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. So they cherrypicked Virginia because the data matched their pre written conclusions |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 03:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Me too. But you also seem to be making some conclusions based on no data... nt |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. Gun Forum spin should be wild with more studies like this and a few more massacres. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 08:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
25. FBI UCR, Table 20, Murder by State and Type of Weapon |
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Flyboy_451 (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. a few thoughts... |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 05:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. +1 - I think that is exactly what is happening |
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Straw Man (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. It makes sense that... |
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beevul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. A dishonest attempt to set the narrative. |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. *nod* You'll notice it doesn't say 'more shots fired' or 'more victims'.. |
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beevul (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. That is exactly what I'm talking about. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 07:11 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. In addition, note also the examples cited |
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Callisto32 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jan-25-11 08:51 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. Who do you think you are? |
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virginia mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
15. LOL Talk about cherry picking data!! |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
16. Impossible! We all know that gun laws only take guns from law-abiding |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 07:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Are you familiar with the term "sampling error"? |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. But about the same on average.... |
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Kennah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
21. So the threat of 5 years in jail ... |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
22. Since those guns and those magazines *WEREN'T BANNED* 1994-2004, |
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