🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@medigoth

> How about youth pastors, teachers at church schools, et al.?

If you have specific data for them im all ears.

> My point is that these days, religious conservatives in the US label things like teaching LGBTQ kids to be comfortable in their own bodies as “grooming”

Yes that is a serious issue, mostly from the right, and leads to all sorts of problems. No arguments there.

@bonifartius

Yes the solution absolutely lies in a combination of social problems and mental health accedd.

That said we can show that quite clearly when you start banning guns rape cases go up.. so there is a case to say that you can help prevent rape with better access to guns.

@LadyDragonfly

@medigoth While not an exact comparison, this is very questionable.. A **public** school teacher is about two times more likely to commit sexual abuse than a catholic preist.

@ambihelical saying its about number of incidents is debatable.. depends if hte argument here is that you can kill more people with an assault rifle or not... and yes there were a number of uyears with 0 deaths both before and after the ban was initiated..

@LadyDragonfly True, but it forgets to mention the devistating effect this has had in violent acts, and rape cases. They replaced the death of a child or two and traded it for tens of thousands of rape and other victims... Not really a win IMO.

@gdunn39 I mean while FOX is certainly one of the worst I think probably the majority if USA news on both sides of the aisle is pretty damn bad... Other countries usually have one or two yellow journals but at least there is some semblance of journalistic integrity outside of the USA.

@georgetakei As usually you are spot on my man... FOX is trash, republicans are trash ... we can do better...

@DoesntExist

Whatever you want to call it is fine by me.. Point is you came in like a child having a tantrum making it quite clear youd be a waste of time to engage with in good-faith or to have anything remotely resembling a mature conversation... therefore I did not engage with your questions, and wont, until you actually behave like an adult.

Most of the reason i have 31K followers is because I engage with them respectfully and naturally no matter how strongly I disagree with them... in an internet world full of people like you spreading toxicity and insults rather than anything useful and productive it tends to result in quite a few followers.

@georgetakei

@ambihelical Not sure how you can look at that and think its flat, but ok... I do agree on your point about assault rifles though.

@StevePaintsNSkates

Nope, sadly thats not true.. Though I can understand why you might think so as there is a **lot** of manipulated and unethical use of statistics out there and it takes a professional to usually spot it and discernt he credible analysis from the junk.. but yea, anyone who understands data science and is truely being objective will see, quite clearly, not only did they not work, they made things WORSE.

If you want to threaten to block every scientist who tells you your wrong and not have a mature conversation instead, go for it. You'd be doing me a favor...

@Litzz11 @georgetakei

@plenartowicz

Hahah fair.. well I would never claim these casual posts constitute valid rigerous peer-reviewed scientific content. Even though ive done this analysis many times as a professional data scientist, and have seen nothing but validity in this assessment, even that doesnt count as a proper peer-reviewed rigorous assertion, obviously. But until I see good science that disagrees with it ill stick with it.

@rdaily

@plenartowicz

I assume you agree that holds equally true for the original post then, since I made it a point to use the same informal approach with the same parameters as the OP (and for a reason(.

@rdaily

@rdaily Also more to the point (and can be seen even in your chart if you look carefully), mass shootings **increased** by about 30% immediately following and during the assault riffle ban (clearly it didnt work)... once the ban was lifted mass shootings continued to rise at about the same 30% rate.

This would suggest that the assault riffle band had absolutely no positive effect on mass shootings of any kind.

@rdaily Here are some very similar patterns from all over the world too.

@rdaily Here isd a similar chart of historic homicide rates and points where major democrat led gun control acts were enacted...

I care alot more about homicide, something that is rampant and an actual issue than I care about school shootings which, while tragic, a child is about two times more likely to get struck by lightening than to die in a school shooting.

@Hyolobrika@berserker.town We passed that point of concern a LONG time ago on this account :)