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In reply to the discussion: Arizona house so full of guns, it’s a miracle the 3-year-old only now shot himself [View all]Straw Man
(6,626 posts)23. Could you put a number on "predominantly"?
Could we talk about what safety legislation the various states have? For example, in New York there is no state-mandated training, safety or otherwise, for a CCW. Could we talk about accident rates per firearm-owning household rather than per raw population figures? Could we talk about how we could accurately assess the impact of gun-control legislation on accident rates? Your map doesn't even come close to doing that.
You cite 2 exceptions which were noticed & accounted for, ignoring the predominance of southern & Midwestern pro gun states which prove what I said, to be true.
I believe I cited six exceptions, and that was by no means comprehensive. You "noticed and accounted for" nothing. You have a mass of data there that you have digested whole and then spewed out some vague and unsupported causal assertions. If that's what you call "fact," I'll beg to differ.
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