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

11 Post author: rlpowell 20 December 2012 08:14PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 21 December 2012 02:14:47PM 1 point [-]

if the rate of rise stays approximately the same this would be evidence that gun control laws do not affect crime one way or the other.

Even that isn't a great measure-- social changes aren't constrained by anything to rise at the same rate.