How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news
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.45ACP ammo shipped today.
AR-15 kit and Mossberg Semi Auto 12 gauge will be ordered soon.
Might pick up a 30-06 or something else suitable for deer hunting.
Dusting off the Dillon and my reloading books...
Ordering some .223 dies, bullets, powder, brass, primers, soon.
Planning a garden....
Still want universal health care.
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Keep it below 150 yards, use a really good bullet with correct shot placement and an AR will kill deer.
https://www.federalpremium.com/rifle/premium-centerfire-rifle/trophy-bonded-tip/11-P223TT3.html
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I stopped reading at the first state:
While this list is lengthy, it does not include categories like pistols, which make up a large percentage of the guns in the U.S.
In other words: "Our list of 'armed' is worthless."
@George-K said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
I stopped reading at the first state:
While this list is lengthy, it does not include categories like pistols, which make up a large percentage of the guns in the U.S.
In other words: "Our list of 'armed' is worthless."
Why is that? Isn't it reasonable to assume that weapon ownership in general correlates well with pistol ownership?
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@George-K said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
I stopped reading at the first state:
While this list is lengthy, it does not include categories like pistols, which make up a large percentage of the guns in the U.S.
In other words: "Our list of 'armed' is worthless."
Why is that? Isn't it reasonable to assume that weapon ownership in general correlates well with pistol ownership?
@Klaus said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
@George-K said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
I stopped reading at the first state:
While this list is lengthy, it does not include categories like pistols, which make up a large percentage of the guns in the U.S.
Why is that? Isn't it reasonable to assume that weapon ownership in general correlates well with pistol ownership?
In the US only about 3% of firearm-related deaths are due to rifles and other such weapons. 97% are due to handguns. If your list doesn't include about 90% of the population that you're sampling, it's a bullshit list. I know half a dozen people who own pistols only. They would not be counted.
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@Klaus said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
@George-K said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
I stopped reading at the first state:
While this list is lengthy, it does not include categories like pistols, which make up a large percentage of the guns in the U.S.
Why is that? Isn't it reasonable to assume that weapon ownership in general correlates well with pistol ownership?
In the US only about 3% of firearm-related deaths are due to rifles and other such weapons. 97% are due to handguns. If your list doesn't include about 90% of the population that you're sampling, it's a bullshit list. I know half a dozen people who own pistols only. They would not be counted.
@George-K said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
n the US only about 3% of firearm-related deaths are due to rifles and other such weapons. 97% are due to handguns. If your list doesn't include about 90% of the population that you're sampling, it's a bullshit list. I know half a dozen people who own pistols only. They would not be counted.
But this is only about an ordering of the US states. It is not about determining the total amount of weapons. It's about who has fewer and who has more weapons.
Let's say you want to rank-order US states by possession of luxury sports cars, but you only have data about the possession of Porsche cars. Don't you think that the order determined by the Porsche data will be quite similar to the order you'd get if you had the data about all luxury sports cars?
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@George-K said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
n the US only about 3% of firearm-related deaths are due to rifles and other such weapons. 97% are due to handguns. If your list doesn't include about 90% of the population that you're sampling, it's a bullshit list. I know half a dozen people who own pistols only. They would not be counted.
But this is only about an ordering of the US states. It is not about determining the total amount of weapons. It's about who has fewer and who has more weapons.
Let's say you want to rank-order US states by possession of luxury sports cars, but you only have data about the possession of Porsche cars. Don't you think that the order determined by the Porsche data will be quite similar to the order you'd get if you had the data about all luxury sports cars?
@Klaus said in How heavily armed is your state? by CBS news:
But this is only about an ordering of the US states. It is not about determining the total amount of weapons. It's about who has fewer and who has more weapons.
Let's say you want to rank-order US states by possession of luxury sports cars, but you only have data about the possession of Porsche cars. Don't you think that the order determined by the Porsche data will be quite similar to the order you'd get if you had the data about all luxury sports cars?
It's a more generic question. A list of states which are "heavily armed" should include handguns, should it not?
To apply your analogy, a list of "which states have the most cars" and only counts
AudisPorsches would have the same flaw. -
"For every 1,000 residents in Rhode Island, there are 3.8 guns."
I'd take that statistic with a pinch of salt. Those eejits don't even know what an Island is, never mind a gun. Plus, they don't know how to spell 'Road'. They're probably confusing hand-gun with hand-job.
