[marktwain]

The author gives many assumptions in favor of the anti-freedom arguments. He includes only "gun fatalities" when what is really important is total fatalities. He includes suicide, when suicide is a personal choice that is independent of the method used.

Still, he shows that on its face, the idea that more guns result in more gun deaths is false.

This is a little surprising, as we would expect deaths correlated with a group of objects woud increase as the number of those objects increase in society, and that would be a neutral fact. More automobiles means more automobile related deaths. More solar panels would mean more solar panel related deaths.

But, surprisingly, more guns do not mean more gun related deaths.

[muawiyah]

There's really nothing at all surprising in this.

Let me point to another correlation ~ as the number of guns has risen, and the incidence of any particular person you might encounter having one has also increased, the Leftwingtards and their bully friends have had to give up cutting into line, pushing your cart out of the way at the grocery store, and trying to beat you to the only available parking space in the parking lot.

[Pecos]

My problem with most of these studies, including this one (favorable to my aims), is that one variable cannot be isolated from another because there is no control population. If I was a Lefty, I would point to the large down swing in gun-deaths-per-10,000 after Brady and Assault Weapon Ban were passed and say that "Even though gun deaths did not hooorribly increase after they expired, the brighter people in the country did their job well and brought more common sense even to the less intelligent among you. That, and our constant PSAs and gun buy-backs, are the only thing standing between this country and total anarchy."