Competitors? You mean SNL? Daniel Tosh? Jeff Dunham? Cheech and Chong? Al Sharpton?
This reminds me of the recent news that eating a serving of cured meat every day increases your risk of colon cancer by 18%. That sounds much scarier than saying your absolute risk of colon cancer increases from 5% (for eating no cured meat ever) up to 6% (for eating cured meat every day).
Please pass the sausage. and the ammunition.
I don’t think you’re getting this.
The odds ratio associated with the presence of a gun in the home is 2.7. That compares to an odds ratio of 1.0 for the contrast group (not having a gun in the home).
The increased odds (e.g., 2.7) is independent of all other factors controlled in the model.
So, whatever increase in the odds of having a homicide in the home you have accrued from any other risk factors, such as the neighborhood you live in, having a history of domestic violence in the household, engaging in illicit drug use, having a criminal history (whatever factors were controlled in a particular study), you are more than doubling them when you have a gun in the house.
Getting hit by a meteorite is not a risk factor for a homicide in the house, as far as I can discern. However, whatever the increased odds of homicide associated with that, yours are at least 2.7 times what mine are (presuming you have a firearm in the home).
I was too young for Stonewall, but I have been an instructor for the local chapter of Pink Pistols - and I am a pasty white, straight, libertarian gun owner. See, there are some gays that see guns as a good way to protect themselves from the bashers.
I don’t think you get what I am saying. I don’t give a crap about 2.7x as part of your ongoing statiscal terminology jerking-off. We know. You’re a scientist. We also know you relentlessly obfuscate and misrepresent. What I care about is realistic risk assessment in the real world. How likely is a person who doesn’t have a gun in his house to be murdered with a gun (or anything else for that matter)? How does my likelyhood of being murdered compare to his if I do have a gun in the house? Don’t lecture me again about statistics, shit-wit. I had plenty of schooling of my own in it at undergrad and grad levels. If you can’t plainly answer my question, just stfu.
When I Wikipedia defensive gun use I run across this below…
That’s the same guy often cited by gun control advocates. Using his most conservative estimate there are five times as many defensive gun uses than gun homicides in the US. How does that reconcile with the 2.7x figure that’s been cited and quarreled over in the last several gun threads?
To answer the thread title;
“Because too many people need killing and I’m probably one of them.”
I own guns because I like guns. I apply this same logic to almost everything that I own.
Fuck off, douchebag. Your schooling was apparently for shit.
Um, not really. George Washington put down* two *such armed uprisings. The Constitution as written is not actually an agreement to let the next bunch of crazy white men who get organized enough overthrow the state and install their own ruling elite. Unfortunately we have behaved as if it were.
Classy. :rolleyes:
Have you found your meds?
I’ll accept this as the best attempt at shutting tfu your ego permits. I knew a plain answer wasn’t happening.
LOL sure whatever, you couch-ridden dickless troglodyte. You have no argument beyond DERP DERP LIBERALS=WRONG. You’re the cancer on the soul of a nation that once was a lamp to the world, you’re the pox Americana. You’re the ignorant horselaugh denoting a grand vacancy, you’re a gash on the face of Liberty. You’re a boot in a protester’s crotch, you’re a fart in a jar that once held hope. You’re a mosquito, a speed bump on the road to progress. This is the most attention you’ll get, no matter how hard you troll. Hope you’re happy, stupid.
And then there’s you, you half fuck. Hentor takes the time to explain BASIC BUSINESS LEVEL STATS to your dumb fucking ass, and you’re like HERP DERP TIME TO FUCKING CALL SCIENCE A LIAR. You don’t know history, you don’t know law, you don’t know stats, all you know is that you like guns so GUNS=HARMLESS. You blind bastard. You’re foul, too.
Did you have any point other than, perhaps, making us feel guilty for dumping an angry retard on the Aussies?
omg he pointed out that i have no game i better say he has no point
No, you don’t. You have no place even in the argument. You left the US for Australia and frothed some upthread about how much better you like it there. You didn’t stay here and work to change things for what you consider better. You got what you wanted by bailing. Your angry retard rantings would have a point if you were part of what is going on here. You aren’t. You’re just a foaming buffoon on the other side of the planet.
Oh word? Let us see your righteous facts, then.
I can appreciate that dipshits have to sleep and run out of duh, so I’m throwing this open to anybody. Scummy ran out of piss once I asked for facts, apparently. Where are your facts?