Sven
Senior Member
In a long running debate in another forum, a liberal friend discredits the stats showing lower crime in areas with CCW with the following:
Could somebody help me show how these studies look at these controls? Help appreciated.
...put briefly, there are many variables at play, and a statistically rigorous
analysis would control for the others before claiming to attribubte any
statistical significance to the presence (or lack thereof) of guns
specifically. and to claim causality would be even a step further than that
... that would be more or less impossible to demonstrate.
i didn't read those data/articles in any depth. maybe steve you can save me time and point out where, and if, such controls on other variables were
established. otherwise, there's really nothing there to discuss.
Could somebody help me show how these studies look at these controls? Help appreciated.