Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: At least one American city has sensible gun laws [View all]jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)Johnston: Actually, I used the wrong one which simply means coordination does not imply causation.
The proper phrase is 'correlation does not prove causation'. But this just means that it doesn't absolutely prove causation. There can indeed be a causative effect if there is a correlation. You just can't say that when geese fly over a lake going north, they cause the weather to become warm.
And your link ended with this: As with any logical fallacy, identifying that the reasoning behind an argument is flawed does not imply that the resulting conclusion is false.
Johnston: Since you cherry pick cities, you are also card stacking. The link clearly explains it.
An utterly ridiculous remark, since I was specifically noting which progun cities or shall issue cities had higher violent crime rates than wash DC. I couldn't 'cherry pick' those cities without them actually BEING those cities, now could I? what I wrote is below:
what jimmy wrote: Detroit, Flint, & progun St Louis, Memphis, Little Rock, Birmingham AL, Atlanta, Cleveland, Kansas City, Nashville, all had higher violent crime rates than DC, which ranked 21.