Oscar_Cunningham comments on Gun Control: How would we know? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 20 December 2012 09:31:51PM * 9 points [-]

Ban guns in a randomly chosen* selection of 25 states and see if fewer people get shot in those states.

*"randomly chosen" is important to avoid effects from regression to the mean etc.

Comment author: RobertLumley 20 December 2012 11:16:50PM 4 points [-]

The borders of gun states vs non gun states would be interesting.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 21 December 2012 05:02:15AM 4 points [-]

Not necessarily since it's easy to move guns across them.

Comment author: Alsadius 22 December 2012 08:27:37AM * 1 point [-]

Probably not what Robert meant, but I'd love to watch trafficking patterns across those borders.

Comment author: jkaufman 25 December 2012 09:39:14PM 2 points [-]

Though "get shot" seems less what we're trying to minimize than "get killed".

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