Waiting for them to announce 2022, I'll be there with my Riddler outfit and "Knives take lives" poster....
we need universal background checks for condiments. Nobody needs that much duck sauce to eat an egg roll Accused NYC ‘duck-sauce’ killer Glenn Hirsch had stash of the sweet stuff in his fridge https://nypost.com/2022/06/07/accused-nyc-duck-sauce-killer-glenn-hirsch-hoarded-condiment/
Armed Man Is Arrested Near Home of Justice Kavanaugh The man, Nicholas John Roske, told the authorities that he traveled from California to kill a Supreme Court justice, according to court documents. He was charged with attempted murder. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/brett-kavanaugh-threat-arrest.html
10-year-old Orlando girl arrested on murder charge in shooting death of woman who was fighting with her mom Girl faces 2nd-degree murder charge https://www.clickorlando.com/news/l...death-of-woman-who-was-fighting-with-her-mom/
New York's strict gun laws work Roddy Ricch busted with firearm, ammo outside Governor’s Ball: cops https://nypost.com/2022/06/12/roddy-ricch-busted-with-firearm-large-capacity-ammo-mag-nypd/ excerpt: The 23-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rodrick Moore, was in 2020 black Cadillac Escalade with two other men stopped at a security checkpoint around 6:20 p.m. – just hours before the event was set to begin – when an employee with a private security firm hired for the Queens concert spotted the Canik 9mm under a seat, according to police. *** Moore of Los Angeles was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device and possession of an unlawful feeding device, cops said. Carlos Collins, 57, of NJ and Michael Figueroa, 46, Brooklyn, are also facing gun charges, cops said. more at the link
well, you know about correlation and causation. Vermont and New Hampshire both have virtually no gun control laws, and their rates of firearm deaths are comparable to that in NY. So . . . maybe
Correlation may indicate causation and it may not of course. The question is whether or not you are comparing two things that are both caused by another phenomenon or is one causing another. Stats don't answer that question clearly all the time if you don't have all the variables in an analysis, but logic and context can fill in the missing gap in most cases. Certainly it's a complex relationship but here's a good study that shows a strong correlation. https://everytownresearch.org/rankings/ It should that Vermont is an average state and New Hampshire is slightly above average. They don't look like outliers at all.
