Sujet : Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general
De : am (at) *nospam* yellowjersey.org (AMuzi)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 20. Jun 2025, 14:18:54
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On 6/20/2025 5:06 AM, zen cycle wrote:
On 6/19/2025 11:25 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 6/19/2025 4:05 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:31:23 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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"If a person does get a gun for "protection," they or someone in their
household becomes much more likely to get shot"
--Krygowski
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Nonsense. There are probably more people who bought a gun for
protection who have not been shot, than people who bought a gun for
protection who have been shot.
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Wow.
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Can one of Mr. Tricycle Rider's allies please explain his logic mistake to him? I'm beyond trying to help him learn to think.
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If he would have bothered to read the study, he'd know that there are in fact more people who bought a gun for protection who have not been shot than people who bought a gun for protection who have been shot.
The fact that he thinks the study is bogus because more people who bought a gun for protection who have not been shot than people who bought a gun for protection who have been shot shows that he didn't read the study, and if he did, he didn't understand it.
The claim "there are more people who bought a gun for protection who have not been shot, than people who bought a gun for protection who have been shot" does not negate the the conclusion of the study that having a gun in your home makes you more likely to get shot.
It's likely that the dumbass will never be able to understand the distinction because:
a) he reading comprehension is too weak to understand statistical analysis
2) his automatically dismisses anything not fed to him by his magatard echo chamber.
but as I mentioned before, trying to expose him to new concepts and use objective rationale has little more possibility of success that trying to convince a dog not to lick it's own ass.
IOW - it's just the willfully ignorant dumbass being a willfully ignorant dumbass.
A new paper by Jens Ludwig (could not find a not-paywall copy) elucidates the area well. Here's a synopsis:
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-05-23/a-new-theory-on-gun-violencealso:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635450-100-how-a-study-in-the-stockholm-subway-could-help-prevent-violent-crime/-- Andrew Muziam@yellowjersey.orgOpen every day since 1 April, 1971
Riding a bike a protection and in general
Re: Riding a bike a protection and in general
