Posted on 11/16/2016 8:50:06 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
First, the paper conflates “homicide” and “murder,” and thus cannot result in valid findings with respect to “murder” in particular or with public safety in general. Second, the study contrasts Florida’s Stand Your Ground law with a set of four purportedly non–Stand Your Ground states. One of the four states in the control set, however, routinely applies Stand Your Ground doctrine in much the same manner as does Florida. This failure of methodology substantively invalidates the paper’s findings, and should have been identified in peer review long before publication in JAMA. (The widespread defects in the peer-review process of even, or perhaps especially, premier scientific journals are another subject entirely).
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They use the words “linked” and “caused” as if they now what it means.
Stand your ground laws were linked to the Orlando gay bar shooting is one of the study author’s conclusions.
Oh. Please.
Whenever I hear Libs purporting to quote statistics, I know they’re lying then, too.
It means I have a f’ing gun in my pocket and you better not F()CK with me!
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