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SWEET! My license to conceal carry a firearm has just been approved!!!!

@freemo I hope you never need to use your firearm. :-)

@Sioctan That is what everyone hopes... I'm just doing the responsible thing in case it is needed.

@freemo , are you American? I thought you were from the Netherlands.

@freemo Nice, so you are American citizen? I am just wondering if the usa issue conceal carry to foreigners?

@hans Yup thats how the world works. Even if you have a perfect police force if someone wants to kill you you will be dead long before even the quickest cop has a chance to be on the scene. Short of eliminating crime (which no society has yet to accomplish) a gun woukd be the only way you might survive

@🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 Let's agree to disagree. I think the worldwide numbers on gun violence and the number of people carrying them show a close relationship: the more guns, the more gun violence.

Unfortunately the NRA preaches that it's the other way around and (paid?) politicians seem to believe it.

@hans Well no, ive talked many times about ststistical analysis of guns and shown in the past how quite the opposite is true, that when you pass laws that restrict guns the deathtoll on homicides and violent acts sky rocket. Ive used dozens of different cou tries ststistics to demonstrate this.

The problem is most people dont really understand how to apply statistics for good analysis so you get a lot of misinformation on this that relies on poor principles (like casual correlation rather than proper causality tests)

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