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Gun Control & RKBA

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discntnt_irny_srcsm

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13. re: Statistics for Dummys
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 04:03 PM
Mar 2016

While I don't have formal training on this type of statistics, I have plenty of exposure to college level math. As a physics major, I concentrated more on Bose–Einstein, Maxwell–Boltzmann and Fermi-Dirac flavors of statistics. Feel free to discontinue embarrassing yourself with this didacticism anytime.

Since my '1 gun in 470' was also an extrapolation based on a very crude approximation that every crime involved a different gun... well you can see where that's going (I hope).

Re: "Ergo, approx 85% handguns over 470 years, used in a crime."



But most of all, thanks for the chuckle. The ironic conjunction of pedantic lecture and your misspelling of the word 'dummies' in the subject was amusing.

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