ath: It's the online equivalent of intentionally turning your back on someone that you were talking to and speaking to a nearby bystander, with info meant for the original party to the convo. It's insulting, and not how you hold a conversation.
drama queen, what spin to conflate a spontaneous live conversation to message boards where hours to days can take place between replies, which can be given in depth thought & attention; I'll post the way I see fit, if a couple inattentive posters can't follow the thread or posts, couldn't care less.
(Note the other 'inside reply' was becoming too narrow so I posted to OP to broaden).
I wrote: "MY point was that UK has ten times higher firearm rate"
ath: Firearm murder rate? Firearm ownership rate? Firearm(s) per owner rate? Can you be less specific?
I explained it all in a preceding post, why don't you reread them, & if you can't keep up with the class, enroll in something else.
"& thrice the murder rate" -- Thrice the total murder rate, or firearm murder rate? I objected upthread due to the loose language used herein for precisely this reason. Do you imagine the presence of firearms drives up the non-firearm murder rate? What is your point here?
Again, you're not keeping up with the class, & I'm not gonna go over things already discussed just to update a lax student. Reread the OP, & readdress your concern to johnston, or rather his blog author.
I would accept 'other' as possibly Any Other Weapon type classification that we use in the US, possibly illegally sawed off shotguns, illegal fully automatic weapons, machine pistols, zip guns, even air rifles.
I inadvertently conflated 'undetermined cause' with 'undetermined firearm', so I presume 'other' means undetermined firearm or airgun/lesser gun which caused the death. The only error I've detected so far.
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