08-22-2019, 04:10 AM
lazyengineer Wrote:The numbers behind those stat's is highly in question.Well said!
For example:
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2017/...in_us.html
Alabama had 400 murders in 2017. I rather highly doubt only 1 of those was done with a firearm.
A common error when trying to make a case to a potentially hostile audience, is to throw a bunch of items and hope something sticks. That's not how it works, when you list 11 things as items of complaints, or supporting data, and any one of those is either absurd or outright wrong; then the entire case is considered suspect and often dismissed if it's already a hostile audience, even if the other 10 points are spot on.
Worse, we are so deluged with faulty and distorted statistics that even absolutely accurate numbers are frequently ignored.
That might be a contributing factor to the current trend that the loudest voices prevail rather than the ones in the right.
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