Re: Gun Control - Should Ordinary Citizens Own, Carry, & Use Firearms?
Reply #1263 –
Data is a collection of anecdotes, you know?
Oh yeah, I forgot to address this. Even if this were true, that means we have 120 anecdotes compared to Smiley's one, Some show failure. but overall they show success and that, in fact, the patient is NOT likely to proceed to drown his sons and then kill himself. How is this hard? You can open with an anecdote, but you need have some way to show this is a typical outcome of the scenario.
We both also damn well know you wouldn't let me get away with that. However, I know why you're letting Smiley tell a single story without challenging him whereas if I said something like that you'd dismiss it as the idiocy that it is. You're basically an intelligent person, but you've poisoned your mind with right-wing blogs to the point where everything somebody you perceive as liberal is automatically wrong and the one you consider conservative is correct even if you know they've presented a poor argument. What's that? You don't do that? Well you just did for our friend here.