[extropy-chat] Guns

[Dirk Bruere]

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From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
To: "Dirk Bruere" <dirk at neopax.com>; "ExI chat list"
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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Guns


>
> --- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
> > I doubt it.
> > It's a religious issue that is a matter of faith.
>
> Sorry, Dirk, but the numbers really do prove my side. Dr. John Lott's
> study was of ALL FBI crime data from 1980 to 1995 and proves that
> right-to-carry reduces crime. Antyi-gun studies always cherry pick
> their data sets from communities that fit their prejudices. NONE have
> ever looked at even a large fraction of the data that Lott's study
> covered. Furthermore, a more recent study of the same data using more
> advanced statistical methods demonstrated that the crime reduction was
> greater than the 12% that Lott reported, more in the order of 25%.
>
> Faith does not get proven by statistics, faith only exists in SPITE of
> evidence to the contrary, so I am sorry, but it is the anti-gun stance
> that lives by faith.

The faith I am referring to is the *belief* that society should have no say
in the legitimacy of your position.

Dirk

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