Things that made you frown today (Political Version)

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Originally Posted by cwolff

[sighs] am I an illegal gun owner? Please do tell.

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You smoke grass?

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

You smoke grass?

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no

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Originally Posted by cwolff

no

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you were just talking about it the other day

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

you were just talking about it the other day

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yes. But I don't smoke it. I would if I could but I can't.

:nods slowly:

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Originally Posted by ~Rocktar~

So basically you are tap dancing around the hard questions as to why you are a gun banner and want to see people hurt and/or killed because of your emotions.

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Still didn't get it, huh? At least you helped demonstrate my prior claim: "Anyone whose go-to response to gun control legislation is to shriek about the Second Amendment is wasting your time."

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Originally Posted by Latrinsorm

-In general, gun ownership is much better correlated than schizophrenia is to gun deaths.

You want to know which is a symptom and which is the cause, here is your answer.

I don't know if these people were or weren't of sound mind, but I know for certain what weapon they used.

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There are other mental illnesses right?

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

:nods slowly:

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Am I legal now?

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Originally Posted by drauz

There are other mental illnesses right?

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There's depression, where we're below average, so I'll skip the regression there. We are above average in anxiety, but the correlation there is even worse than schizophrenia's already tenuous connection:

https://imgur.com/QRGDtkq.png

I don't know brother, the data paints a pretty clear picture.

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Originally Posted by Latrinsorm

There's depression, where we're below average, so I'll skip the regression there. We are above average in anxiety, but the correlation there is even worse than schizophrenia's already tenuous connection:

https://imgur.com/QRGDtkq.png

I don't know brother, the data paints a pretty clear picture.

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I wonder how that relates to this: "States that had above-average unemployment and gun ownership rates, along with greater than average alcohol consumption and larger student-age populations, had greater number of school shooting victims," he writes.