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endment conferred an individual right to keep and bear arms moving on justice stevens wrote a dissent to which justices souter ginsberg and breyer added their signatures the question presented by this case is not whether the second amendment protects a collective right or an individual right surely it protects a right that can be enforced by individuals finally justices stevens souter and ginsberg also signed justice breyer s additional dissent in interpreting and applying this amendment i take as a starting point the following four propositions based on our precedent and today s opinions to which i believe the entire court subscribes 1 the amendment protects an individual right i e one that is separately possessed and may be separately enforced by each person on whom it is conferred see e g ante at 22 opinion of the court ante at 1 stevens j dissenting put simply not even the supreme court justices who agreed with gun control extremists about d c s draconian gun laws were willing to sign on to the wholly spurious historically unsupported recently fabricated notion that the second amendment exclusively protects a right in relation to a militia the more you learn about how poorly supported the gun control position is the more you start to understand why the people in the anti rights movement are almost invariably so bitter antagonistic and hateful it has to wear on a person to be proven wrong at every turn one wonders why they simply do not accept reality and move on with their lives happier and healthier for it author graphics matter posted on december 30 2019 categories data tags alito breyer collective right dc v heller dissent ginsberg gun control gun control extremist individual right keep and bear arms kennedy militia opinion of the court roberts scalia second amendment souter stevens supreme court supreme court justice thomas leave a comment on an individual right wait that s illegal i would contend that there is no better contemporary example of the insane incrementalism of gun control extremists than what is currently transpiring in virginia due to apparently unfortunate election results the authoritarians placed into the virginia legislature are working on prohibiting assault weapons punishing people for having their firearms stolen stripping people of their rights without benefit of due process or trial and assorted other pipe dreams of gun control wanna be tyrants peaceful virginians response has been fairly predictable and quite understandable and has included such things as banding together to form militias to defend their constitutionally protected human rights now ever since gun control extremists have been attempting to unjustly deprive peaceful americans of their rights they have bitterly clung to the wholly erroneous notion that the rights protected by the second amendment only apply to militias impressively though the nine supreme court justices seated at the time disagreed on how that right could be restricted and limited all of them agreed that the right was reserved by the people and the prefatory clause at the beginning of the amendment was an explanation as to why at the most but those who wish to control other men have never let simple facts get in their way and to this day gun control extremists pound the militia drum so the virginians getting together to form militias to defend their under attack human rights are perfectly acceptable with the gun control crowd right wrong the virginia legislature s response to this news was to propose legislation banning such activities as i like to not really joke the slippery slope is not a fallacy when you can point to the incline and the crisco gun control extremists like to incessantly whine and moan that pro rights activists are unwilling to compromise or have reasonable discussions or work together this is why even when peaceful americans try to play by the absurd rules of ignorant fools the latter change the rules and then demand more more more i dare say and i certainly hope that america is tiring of foot stomping temper tantrums from gun control extremists who want to control others but cannot even control themselves author graphics matter posted on december 26 2019 december 27 2019 categories memes tags assault weapon assault weapon ban authoritarian compromise constitution fallacy gun control gun control extremist human right incrementalism insanity legislature militia prefatory clause reasonable discussion red flag law second amendment slippery slope supreme court tyranny tyrant virginia wait that s illegal work together 1 comment on wait that s illegal fixed points in data for far too long now whenever someone shares my graphics matter series of posts someone pipes up with a response that can be summarized as we don t know how many firearms there are in america so we cannot draw any correlation or causation conclusions between firearms and the people they kill it is time i address this notion the first phrase of the sentence is actually correct not only are firearms a durable good meaning that firearms produced before the revolutionary war could still be used today so long as they were properly maintained but national registration of non nfa regulated firearms is outlawed by the firearm owners protection act as well it should be the government simply has no business knowing what i own but that means the second phrase of the sentence has to be correct right well no the entire point of the graphics matter series is to examine the correlation of the number of firearms in america with the number of firearm related fatalities or crimes in america as well as the per population rate of the same the fun thing about correlating two data sets is that you do not need to know their starting points wait what it is one of the fundamental aspects of correlation really positive correlation means that as data set a increases data set b also increases negative correlation means that as data set a increases data set b also decreases an important distinction i want to make before moving on is that this does not mean a s increase causes b s increase or vice versa or anything of the sort the world is full of correlations that have no causal relationship with one another the reason the definitions are significant is this you are looking at the rate of change the slope for those of you who remember what was that high school algebra but rate of change slope is determined between two points and is completely independent of y intercept or any starting point as long as point 1 is separate from point 2 by the expected difference it doesn t actually matter what the individual values are in other words the slope between the x y data points of 1 100 and 2 200 and the slope between the x y data points of 1 0 and 2 100 are exactly the same despite the values being different it is kind of whacky to think about but in most basic terms 2x 10 has the same slope as 2x 100 but entirely different values and both correlate against 4x in exactly the same way they both have a correlation value of 1 with respect to 4x in fact since this is a graphically related site let us look at an example here we have a plot of 2x 10 2x 100 4x and x raised to the power of 1 5 over time as i mentioned above both 2x 10 and 2x 100 correlate to 4x with a coefficient of 1 meaning that as the first two equations increase the third equation also increases and the ratio of the increases is always the same this makes sense all three are straight lines meaning their slope is constant along their lengths so comparisons between those slopes will always be equal however both of the first two equations correlate with x 1 5 with a coefficient of 0 99052 why well the slope of the fourth equation changes over time since it involves a power the first two equations do not have the pronounced curve of the fourth so their growth does not mirror the fourth s growth no matter how different that growth might be as when comparing the first two equations with the third however all three equations are increasing over time hence their very strong correlation coefficients can range from 1 to 1 but the point that i am perhaps belaboring is that the first two equations have the exact same correlation with any other equation or line you care to throw on the chart with them why does this matter we really do not have any idea how many firearms are in america we never will i use the 2003 small arms survey as the basis for my graphics matter series because it was the most current when i started the post series and changing reference points midway through is generally bad but i literally could have started in 1981 with the atrociously flawed assumption that there were no firearms in america and the math would still work out exactly the same uh why we will never know how many firearms there are in america at any given time but we do have a very accurate accounting of how many firearms are produced and imported into the country every year the batfe s firearms commerce in the united states annual statistical update provides us that data back to 1986 and then the shooting industry news covers the remainder how can this be so accurate national registries may be outlawed but all new firearms commercially produced must be uniquely serialized and must be declared to the batfe at the end of the year the penalties for fudging numbers are severe we have the yearly production data which means we have the rate of change the slope likewise we have a noticeably less accurate but still considered reliable accounting of the american population and the number of americans who were killed by other people using firearms at the cdc wisqars fatal injury report i refer to this as less accurate because i have personally witnessed the cdc correcting data five years past while i would prefer accurate data over leaving the inaccurate data it annoys me that for example they got the american population wrong by 300 000 residents in one year having to go back and update my data aside we have the yearly numbers of firearm related fatalities which means we can calculate the rate of change in other words i or you can compare the two year paired slopes for each of those data sets or the average slope as a whole or any other combination and it simply does not matter where the firearms data started only the differences between each year s data matters and we have those differences tallied by authoritative sources feel free to play with the situation yourself i have uploaded the spreadsheet for the above graphic and you can fiddle with the numbers to see how things change we genuinely have no idea how many firearms there are in america and that is fine we do know how many have been produced a year for the past 35 years and the only correlation between the change in firearms in america and the change in firearm related fatalities is negative to non existent for both raw numbers and per american rates thus more guns more deaths cannot be true author graphics matter posted on december 4 2019 december 21 2019 categories data tags atf batfe causation cdc centers for disease control correlation fatal injury reports firearm owners protection act graphics matter rate slope small arms survey wisqars leave a comment on fixed points in data graphics matter 2019 edition honestly i m tired of writing these posts because reality does not change no matter the gun control extremists beliefs inanimate objects cannot control a human being s behavior to believe otherwise is pure fetishism but people continue to believe otherwise so here we are as always check out the original version of this post for the series explanation and as always more guns more deaths is not my hypothesis nor does this series of posts mean to prove that more guns fewer deaths instead this series of posts exclusively exists to disprove the notion that more firearms automatically means more fatalities as the aforementioned gun control extremists incessantly erroneously declare my sources include the cdc wisqars fatal injrury report the batfe firearms commerce in the united states annual statistical update 2018 the small arms survey of 2003 radical gun nuttery my data spreadsheet and once again as every time previous the hypothesis of more guns more deaths falls flat on its face now it s absolutely worth noting that the firearm related fatalities are almost as high as their peak back in the early 90s but the us population has grown massively since then meaning the rate of firearm related fatalities is actually down since then relatedly pun intended the correlation between the raw number of firearms in the united states and the raw number of firearm related fatalities in the united states is 0 03268 that is to say there is precisely no correlation which means there cannot be causation and that is a complicated way of saying the number of firearms in america is not driving the number of firearm related deaths in america which brings us to rates and any sociologist knows that rates are much more valuable than raw numbers well the correlation between the rate of firearm ownership that is to say the number of firearms in america divided by the american population and the rate of firearm related fatalities is 0 34575 in other words there is a noticeable negative correlation which again means there cannot be causation look i get it kind of it is literally an article of faith among some people that guns are bad but the data simply does not back that prejudice up and frankly it is kind of disappointing that modern people are still bitterly clinging to the notion that inanimate lumps of metal can affect conscious cognizant humans minds but here we are author graphics matter posted on december 2 2019 december 4 2019 categories data tags batfe causation cdc correlation fetishism firearms commerce in the united states graphics matter gun control gun control extremist gun deaths may issue more guns more gun deaths small arms survey wisqars 4 comments on graphics matter 2019 edition why stopdownloadableguns has already failed ok on this the day of one of my favorite things ever the democratization of technology let us have a serious sober ish conversation about this whole stopdownloadableguns stop3dprintedguns hysteria by starting at the beginning and working forward is it legal to make your own firearms absolutely at the federal level to put it the proper way it has never been illegal to produce firearms for your own use do not sell it and do not make an illegal firearm e g an sbr without an appropriate tax stamp but otherwise knock yourself out and designs to build your own firearms at home have existed basically since firearms have existed some of those designs are painfully simple yet frighteningly effective others require a bit more knowledge and tools and still others are literally commercially available all of those concepts take something that is not legally considered a firearm and turn it into something that is legally c...