MadCat360
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Whatever is left, no matter how improbable...
... may not be the truth, because you may not be considering everything. That is the trouble with social science. It is the most chaotic thing in, well, civilization. The idea that each factor can be singled out and analysed in a vacuum may not be true, because, being a chaotic system, society plays off of many factors. An example might be the question "why are my eyes hazel?" You can analyse each gene in sequence from the start to the stop codons, but you won't find that single gene that makes eyes hazel, because eye color is determined by many genes. That is the nature of a chaotic system.
I do not know of any study that looks at Texas in a vacuum, but plenty of the ones conducted state-side do use data from Texas and few have been able to come to a conclusion that determines an effect either way. Many models provide inconsistent conclusions when subjected to different datasets. This unreliability puts the entire deductive process you described into question. If (seemingly) all other factors considered point to no effect, leaving concealed carry laws, and the studies about concealed carry laws (including data from Texas) also cannot determine no effect, then you have got nowhere.
Until the science gets more precise, we should continue to experiment, and using that data, build better predictive models that can be used to find out the actual causes. Until then we don't know. And really, I find all the speculative rhetoric that gets thrown from both sides is not very useful.
I would also like to remind everyone that in the time this thread has been active, approximately 800,000 more children have died around the world.
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