Poking Holes
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Of course, statistics can be manipulated. "Family member" could refer to a 4th cousin, twice removed. LOL
I have never heard of that study that the article talks about. But I have heard (and we talked about it in a different forum thread) that the leading cause of death for young black men is gun violence.
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Nah, Harsanyi’s critique of the KFF study is garbage. Take this paragraph from Harsanyi:
Twenty percent of those adults equals nearly 52 million people. There were more than 40,000 gun deaths in 2022, and around 20,000 of them were homicides — a slight dip from a Covid-year historic high that followed decades of lows. So, according to Kaiser’s polling, every victim of gun violence in the past few years had hundreds, if not thousands, of “family members.”
Harsanyi argues with the number of gun deaths for one year while the KFF survey asked respondents whether they have a family member who died due to gun violence in their lifetimes.
