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In reply to the discussion: Stand Your Ground? Texas man kills teacher over noise complaint [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)And your compatriot claimed in post #32, as I have quoted numerous times, that "CCW'ers are, actually, more law-abiding on average." When another poster called that for the BS it is, you tried to back up the claim by posting very limited raw data on Texas that I have debunked in several posts (there is no information on which crimes demonstrate statistically significant convictions rates between gun carriers and non-gun carriers; no information on how convictions rates compare to actual underlying rates of law breaking; no national or worldwide information; and no information on crimes not on your limited list).
And putting the onus on me to prove what things are like outside Texas may sound clever to you, but that is not how science works. You can't take an observation about rats and purport that it applies to all mammals until somebody disproves it. Doesn't work that way. Everything has to be proven, nothing assumed. So when a broad statement is made about all non-concealed carry weapon holders being less law abiding, and no limits are put on that statement (such as time, space, or list of crimes), the entire statement has to be proved by the person making the asserting.
So, as I said before, you can continue to believe unproved statements like "CCW'ers are, actually, more law-abiding on average."
As for me, I think that that is ridiculous and will continue to think so -- and to be offended to be lumped into a "non-law-abiding" stereotype simply because I don't like to shoot people.
Enjoy the rest of your Saturday. I am done with this conversation.