Gnizmo on 01 April 2009
| hsrob said: So just to clarify, it's your contention that we could never satisfactorily prove that gun violence had decreased in response to some change in regulation or legislation. edit: i'm using the word "prove" here in a very flexible sense |
I am saying we will never, not thats we can't You culd try a series of long term studies where you periodically have or do not have gun control laws and see what the data starts to suggest. There are other ways to set-up a study that I can't think of that would prove it as well probably, but it will never be done. It doesn't really need to be done as we don't need hard proof to act. Strong correlations are good enough when combined with other forms of data.
