- Joined
- Jun 3, 2009
- Messages
- 30,870
- Reaction score
- 4,246
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Very Conservative
Random Critical Analysis said:The states with high gun ownership and/or high gun deaths differ in more than just gun policy or attitudes towards guns. State gun policy and, perhaps more importantly, individual gun ownership rates are hardly exogenous; it says something about the people in those states/households. Changing West Virginia’s guns laws, whatever they happen to be, likely won’t make West Virginians behave like Minnesotans and (my guess) would have a much lesser effect on homicide rates than some might presume based on naive interpretations of simple correlations.
https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/a-quick-post-on-gun-related-homicides/
When you look at gun homicides by race, there's actual not much of a correlation at all. In fact, it's demographics that's lurking behind the murders.