Ban guns in a randomly chosen* selection of 25 states and see if fewer people get shot in those states.
*”randomly chosen” is important to avoid effects from regression to the mean etc.
The borders of gun states vs non gun states would be interesting.
Not necessarily since it’s easy to move guns across them.
Probably not what Robert meant, but I’d love to watch trafficking patterns across those borders.
Though “get shot” seems less what we’re trying to minimize than “get killed”.
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Ban guns in a randomly chosen* selection of 25 states and see if fewer people get shot in those states.
*”randomly chosen” is important to avoid effects from regression to the mean etc.
The borders of gun states vs non gun states would be interesting.
Not necessarily since it’s easy to move guns across them.
Probably not what Robert meant, but I’d love to watch trafficking patterns across those borders.
Though “get shot” seems less what we’re trying to minimize than “get killed”.