A man opened fire in the building of the World Court in Novokuznetsk

Thank you, dear father, for telling me what to learn. But I just put the letters into words, but it never occurred to me to comprehend. I will be grateful now.

Statistics is an interesting thing, it is like the Law, and the Law, as you know, "like a drawbar" ... However, for thinking people there is such a thing as analysis and logic. So, what is the controversy about: whether citizens should be prohibited from owning weapons or not. Are you saying that in the United States, where arms legislation is more liberal than in Canada, crime is higher than in Canada? Conclusion (veiled, but this is such a demagogic trick, I’m aware): if in the States (read - everywhere) to tighten the arms legislation, then crime there will be lower, as in Canada. But I’m talking about something else, which Are there any serious crimes in the United States using a LEGAL weapon from among all crimes? In other words, how is a permitted, legal weapon in the hands of citizens affecting the total number of crimes? What is the correlation between legal weapons in the hands of the US population (where arms legislation is milder than in Canada) and the level of crime in the country? So it is clear? And how can US citizens tighten arms laws FOR LEGAL OWNERS of weapons against this crime rate? Crime will fall if disobedient citizens to disarm? when in Florida they took from Cuba all who called themselves "Castro's political victims", crime in the state increased at times, especially the number of serious crimes-murders, wear and tear, robberies ... Florida authorities quickly orientated and allowed citizens wearing and self-defense with the help of a short barrel. And there was a miracle crime fell at times. And here you are "rubbing some game". Here it is interesting:
http://warrax.net/94/hop/nikonov.pdf
I will allow myself a few quotes:
"At the same time, in Moscow alone there were about 600 cases of legal self-defense, and only 70 were noted for the criminal use of traumatists. However, the same high-ranking cops with the stubbornness of the donkeys assure the press that if the Russians allow real pistols, with bullets not in 85 joules, but in 300 and quite identifiable, Russians will shoot each other right there.
Doesn't it seem to you that prohibitionists are simple?
But with a trick! Verbalizing their deepest fears, they also try to prove something with the help of numbers. But what about: they are beaten with statistics on the wort, they also need to respond with something similar to science.
I already mentioned in passing a small example of their futile attempts. Remember: “according to statistics, the inhabitants of a house with weapons increase their chance of getting a gunshot wound” ... Now it's time to dwell on their cheating speculations in more detail. Socialists have several favorite tricks by which they try to prove the unprovable.
The first reception - "Vali kul, so that it was worse." It consists in the following: prohibitionists scare the inhabitants by the number of people killed and wounded by firearms. For example: “Did you know that in the United States of America alone, one hundred thousand people become victims of weapons every year!” Cool, right? .. Either because of petty indigenous tricks, or because of their usual inability to distinguish between good and bad, left-wingers bring down in one heap both law-abiding people and bandits who shot each other in disassembly, and suicides, and robbers who were scammed defenders. In other words, a crazy arsonist, killed by a Texas farmer, falls into a bunch of “victims of firearms,” while a woman who has been raped and beaten to death with a pipe trumpet is not among the victims. Socialists do not see her point blank.
The second very common trick of prohibitionists is “worthless” statistics. That is, the numbers are bright, but not talking about anything. For example: look, leftists are delighted to say, here in this heavily armed state the crime rate is higher than there in that unarmed! .. But what is the consequence and what is the cause? In state X, crime is higher than in state Y because there are a lot of weapons there or, on the contrary, people are intensively armed there, because crime is high? Of course, the second answer is correct, because we know that legal weapons are practically not involved in crimes and, therefore, can not affect the growth of crime. But it can easily be slowed down, as the famous Florida experiment teaches us. Weapons were allowed - the shaft of crime was shot down. And in Washington, on the contrary: weapons were banned - crime jumped.

Take Texas, for example. There are a lot of weapons. But crime is high. From what? And because Mexico is across the river. But there is no fence at the border. And the rod from the south is illegal illegally on an industrial scale. This is a permanent export of crime in its purest form! At the same time, a rare Mexican runs to Alaska, Mexicans are thermophilic and settle mainly in the southern states. In Alaska, however, its “internal emigrants” are enough. I was once in an Alaskan prison. In order, so to speak, familiarization. Everything is pretty civilized, clean. Prisoners in yellow-orange robes cut through. But who is sitting there? Almost one hundred percent are one national minority. In prison, I met only a couple of white faces, and all the rest were narrow-eyed, drunken Aleuts. Indians, quite simply.
Another example of “worthless” statistics of leftists is the following statement: “It is dangerous to keep weapons in the house - 80% of murders in the USA were committed by people who were friends, family members or acquaintances of the victim.” So what? This is a global pattern: the lion's share of murders is a simple household routine, and the most dangerous people for you in this regard are acquaintances, relatives, wives, husbands, brothers. If you, of course, belong to the marginal layer, since it is they who, drunk, wet each other with terrible force. The only difference is that in Russia they kill each other with kitchen knives, irons and pans, while in the USA sometimes pistols are also used. At the same time, I recall that the overall level of homicides in America is lower than ours. "(Cit.)
Here there is about your favorite "statistics" that you can’t argue with. Well, I went to learn to think, to comprehend what I read, so to speak. It’s easier for you, because everything is clear right away. Here you are right from the first glance. A gift from you.