"I’ve already admitted more than once that if the Magic Gun Evaporation Fairy were to come down from space and dematerialize all the guns with her Phaser Wand, that gun homicide would go to zero."
And then somewhere between T+2 and T+24 hours, we would have our first post-fairy gun murder, because a completely disarmed populace is ripe for the picking and firearms are 600 year old technology that is trivial to manufacture in the present day.
Never mind the catastrophic increase that a zero gun world would suffer in other violent crimes as all the criminally inclined realize that they're suddenly very unlikely to get shot while engaging what they're already better than most law-abiding in committing: physical violence.
Hey I think there's some confusion. I can't find anyone who reopened the discussion on Twitter today or even in the last year, but it looks like less than an hour ago you just responded to a tweet from 2018. Help?
You're completely right, by the way. I'm just trying to figure out which one of them responded or who brought this conversation back up again after all of this time.
Recognizing that you’d probably never get agreement on source data, could you sort through use defensive use of guns data to expand the 1st Cartesian plane to plot “negative” murder rates?
"I’ve already admitted more than once that if the Magic Gun Evaporation Fairy were to come down from space and dematerialize all the guns with her Phaser Wand, that gun homicide would go to zero."
And then somewhere between T+2 and T+24 hours, we would have our first post-fairy gun murder, because a completely disarmed populace is ripe for the picking and firearms are 600 year old technology that is trivial to manufacture in the present day.
Never mind the catastrophic increase that a zero gun world would suffer in other violent crimes as all the criminally inclined realize that they're suddenly very unlikely to get shot while engaging what they're already better than most law-abiding in committing: physical violence.
Hey I think there's some confusion. I can't find anyone who reopened the discussion on Twitter today or even in the last year, but it looks like less than an hour ago you just responded to a tweet from 2018. Help?
You're completely right, by the way. I'm just trying to figure out which one of them responded or who brought this conversation back up again after all of this time.
Model R^2 is indeed the mischief, and a particular grade of mischief that people with something to hide don't like to talk about. Nicely done.
Recognizing that you’d probably never get agreement on source data, could you sort through use defensive use of guns data to expand the 1st Cartesian plane to plot “negative” murder rates?