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To: bentway who wrote (211860)	12/16/2012 2:54:16 PM
From: cosmicforce	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541077

If there were a correlation between recreation shooters and mass killings, I could see your point. It is probably like R^2 = 1e-9 or lower. A very tiny proportion of life-long gun owners do anything illegal. Less than 1 in 100,000 guns ever takes a life. The ones that take lives probably take more than one. This is a defining characteristic of an uncorrelated variable. We could make motels illegal because murders often happen there relative to homes. And if remember correctly, mass killings have been illegal since before the Middle Ages. Even the outlawing of dueling only made dueling illegal not fencing. Or pistol ownership.