Stupid Gun news of the day (Part 1)

[steronz]

@Bone

This is not to say one study is right or another is wrong - but that there clearly are conflicting studies and you participated in at least one thread discussing those. Did you forget participating in a thread that discussed some studies that **Lumpy **was referring to?

Allow me to quote myself here:

@steronz

What are these studies you’re referring to that show a different outcome? My understanding is that there are metastudies that show that having a gun in the house is a net negative, and then there are other studies that don’t actually address the question (like defensive gun use studies).

You’ve linked to a thread about a defensive gun use study and pointed out 6 posts where I say things like:

@steronz

I’m saying that DGUs don’t really mean anything.

I think I did a fairly good job of explaining in that thread why I feel that studies that look at defensive gun use don’t actually address the question, and when I challenged Lumpy I explicitly used DGU studies as an example of the sort of thing I don’t find convincing. So no, I didn’t forget participating in that thread. And I’m still waiting for Lumpy to tell me about these contradicting studies that show a net positive benefit to gun ownership.