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To: allmendream
Also there is self selection bias. A particular type of person is drawn to a “muscle car”

You are overgeneralizing. I love fast cars and I know a lot of people who love fast cars. None of them would do what the Ferrari driver did.

Are murderers "drawn" to guns?

29 posted on 05/21/2012 2:04:22 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Da Bilge Troll
Self selection bias is one reason why anti-gun zealots can point out that if you have a gun you are more likely to be the victim of a crime (or victim of an attempted crime).

Because people in crime plagued neighborhoods are (lo and behold) more likely to seek out a gun.

So yes, Virginia - I would say that both criminals and those law abiding citizens who must live near them are both disproportinaltely “drawn” to guns.

35 posted on 05/21/2012 2:28:31 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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