Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 week ago-
you can’t just ignore outliers, that’s called p hacking.
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total guns is important. why should we ignore households with more than one gun? even just households with two guns are not crazy outliers and vastly change the comparison.
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what kind of guns are we talking about? iirc Finns get a standard issue rifle for military service. Handguns are more often used in crime.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Because the argument is that guns cause violent crime (specifically mass shootings) and the example of Finland shows that not to be the case. Then if guns don’t cause violent crime what is it?
The most likely explanation to me is that there is a confounder: an unknown which causes both the acquisition of (one or more) guns and the commission of crimes. A hidden criminality element which Finland seems to lack.
The alternative explanation is that the U.S. is a broken society (in one or more ways) and that this leads people to feel the desire to lash out in extremely violent ways. The availability of guns in the US offers them an easy option for inflicting mass casualties but the recent example of Michigan shows that even without a gun there is still the opportunity for mayhem.