Recent content by ronburgundy

Which is logically identical to arguing "My uncle smoked a 2 packs of cigarettes every day for 50 years and didn't die of lung cancer, so smoking plays no significant causal role in lung cancer. " Once again, all you've demonstrated is a severe inability to reason about data, statistics, and...

Behaviors, criminal or otherwise, are not traits. So, your question presumes your faith based answer by wrongly defining behaviors as the cause you presume (a trait). Behaviors are actions that occur within a particular place and time, and unless that organism does it all the time, is highly...

Poor people live in areas closer to freeways, and major cities and industrial areas where gasoline-based lead exposure is highest. Nearly all sources of lead exposure have been and still are higher for poor people.

The only thing you have demonstrated is your dangerous degree of illiteracy, and inability to reason about data and non-binary causal relations.

Way to completely ignore all the facts. You didn't even look at the study and replied in seconds b/c it contradicts your faith. This study actually has logically relevant data on individuals rather than meaningless aggregated confounded data from a whole population but only cherry picking a...

Lead exposure is itself causally impacted by poverty. So, that is just one of the countless ways in which poverty causes crime.

Do all people who smoke die of lung cancer? No. Therefore, by your logic, smoking plays no causal role in the development of lung cancer.

Wrong. Occam would be ashamed to be associated with such a stunningly stupid comment. There is a mountain of evidence that poverty is a major causal factor in crime. Your theory that crimes are a result of an internal propensity regardless of context is incapable of explaining most of the data...

What gives is that some people have zero interest in honest rational thought and engage in cherry picking to support their faith based dogma. Crime rates had been declining sharply for 15 years prior to the Great Recession, and that overall trend merely continued. Your "evidence" has zero...

Temporary reduction in income due a global economic downturn doesn't impact crime in the way that sustained lifelong poverty does. Just apply a millisecond of honest non-dogmatic though to the issue for once. Criminal behavior results from decisions that like all decisions is the product of a...

No, it's b/c very few guns in Canada are handguns. 95% of gun owners in Canada own hunting rifles, while only 12% own a handgun. And since only 26% of Canadian household's have any type of gun, that means only 3% (12% of 26%) have a handgun. The overall crime rate in Canada is only slightly...

The fact that so many new guns enter the grey and black markets every day proves that the existing guns already in the hands of criminals are insufficient to maintain current levels of gun violence. Thus, eliminating the flow of new guns into those market will definitively result in a large and...

In realty, most guns get into the hands of criminals via the legal gun market and lax laws that allow "law abiding good guys with guns" to profit by funneling guns into the grey markets. Thus, in reality, increased regulation on legal gun sales, transfers, registration, and proof of continued...

Men don't live in segregated communities where there odds of exposure to the virus is much higher than women, but minorities do. In addition, minorities are more likely to work in service industry and jobs where distancing is impossible or more difficult, and to have to take public...

People post pics of their breakfasts. Of all the changes to what personal things people publicly reveal, stupid opinions is among the least of them. Like most psychological features (and most traits in nature) opinions are on a continuous distribution, and "extreme" is nothing but the tails of...