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One example I like to use is my grandfather. He carried a pistol in his overalls since I was a boy and long before our state had a concealed carry law. He did it because he knew as a respected citizen, a property owner, and of the right color, he would likely never face the penalties for violating that law. He did not believe the law should work that way; but he knew how it did work. Had he been missing one of those traits, he might well have had trouble and his fellow citizens would have applauded him being put away. While on the one hand, I appreciate how selective enforcement of the law benefitted a good man, I can’t help but I think that equal application of the law would have stopped an unjust law sooner and benefitted more good men. |
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My point being this is something we could be putting into action NOW without spending a vast amount of limited resources on. |
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The antgun side throws around all kinds of misleading numbers, and I'm pretty quick to ask, "how did they get that number?" If they used something like the methodology described above, I'd have a field day.
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I think you are overthinking things and putting the cart before the horse. Maybe it is because you evision volunteer gathered data as a finished product without considering secondary and tertiary actions.
We call it "paralysis by analysis". Gather some preliminary data on the cheap initially. Some statistical math well let you know if there is something worth devoting resources towards. Then devote the resources and produce a polished product. |
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No, it is because here in L&CR, we deal in specifics, not vague generalities.
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Why? You have to have the ability to define the general and bring it to the specific. It is the forest for the trees as they say, LOL! Seriously. How do you think we go into areas of the world we know absolutely nothing about, build a complete picture of an opposing, cellular, shadow group, and get to Leadership, Logistics, and money as well as all the other specifics such as socio-economic issues that created the insurgency/terrorist organization in the first place? Last edited by davidsog; December 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM. |
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You and I must have different ideas of what "bringing it to the specific means." I showed you the specific problems with your plan. I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that perhaps your understanding of courts and prosecution systems work is lacking.
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Regardless of the answer to that question, I'm going to suggest that we all get back on topic. This thread is beginning to drift into something more akin to activism, which really isn't its purpose.
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I was answering AB's question of how do we get from a broad hypothesis to specific actionable data. Start small with what you know and can easily gather to expand from there. If the data supports the hypothesis...keep digging. If it does not, form a new hypothesis. |
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Glad that I took another look at this thread, Spats. After wading through all the posts for the last 2 days, I was ready to shut it down for being widely off topic, in lieu of deleting the myriad posts that are off topic.
I suggest everyone go back to the original post, and bring the discussion back to that. |
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