Broward Deputy Scot Peterson seen standing outside during Florida school shooting in new video

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Just remembered, I found this earlier and thought of you. It's a chart showing the percentage of gun ownership per state. I think you will be surprised at the numbers.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun...tag=ACQ449302a

From the article: ( this is why I don't argue about gun laws in the US any more)

We showed that exposure to social gun culture was robustly
associated with gun ownership and to our knowledge, this is
the first study to establish empirical evidence of the relation
between social gun culture and gun ownership. Prior evidence
has shown an association between violent and gun-related
behaviours and broad cultural norms.10 The notion that participation
in a social gun culture and gun ownership co-occurs
and may be mutually reinforcing readily builds on theoretical
models of culture–personality relations. This inter-relationship
suggests that sociocultural environments affect how people
behave and how those people adopt the beliefs, values and
social behaviours that are acceptable in that community
culture.11 The link between social gun culture and gun ownership
also suggest one avenue through which modern conceptions
of the primacy of gun ownership, despite the potential
public health consequences, are reinforced. Although notions
of protection of one’s family and property originally justified
gun ownership,12 gun ownership is today sustained in public
consciousness much more through calls to constitutionally
enshrined social values, reinforced intermittently by outrage
at efforts to limit widespread gun availability. Insofar as social
gun cultures may contribute to these prevailing social values,
their co-occurrence with gun ownership suggests that social
gun culture must be considered by potential public health
intervention in the area.
This analysis rests on a cross-sectional design. Therefore, we
cannot infer whether exposure to social gun culture predisposes
one to gun ownership or whether the latter increases
likelihood of participation in the former. However, this is not
particularly germane to the observations being drawn here,
suggesting simply that prudent gun policies that aim to reduce
gun ownership and gun-related injury might need to actively
consider the prevailing social gun culture in the USA. Future
studies that aim to inform our understanding of gun ownership
may fruitfully explore the determinants of a participation in
social gun culture in the USA.

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From the article: ( this is why I don't argue about gun laws in the US any more)

We showed that exposure to social gun culture was robustly associated with gun ownership and to our knowledge, this is the first study to establish empirical evidence of the relation between social gun culture and gun ownership. Prior evidence has shown an association between violent and gun-related behaviours and broad cultural norms. The notion that participation in a social gun culture and gun ownership co-occurs and may be mutually reinforcing readily builds on theoretical models of culture–personality relations. This inter-relationship suggests that sociocultural environments affect how people behave and how those people adopt the beliefs, values and social behaviours that are acceptable in that community culture, The link between social gun culture and gun ownership also suggest one avenue through which modern conceptions of the primacy of gun ownership, despite the potential public health consequences, are reinforced. Although notions of protection of one’s family and property originally justified
gun ownership, gun ownership is today sustained in public consciousness much more through calls to constitutionally enshrined social values, reinforced intermittently by outrage at efforts to limit widespread gun availability. Insofar as social gun cultures may contribute to these prevailing social values, their co-occurrence with gun ownership suggests that social gun culture must be considered by potential public health intervention in the area. This analysis rests on a cross-sectional design. Therefore, we
cannot infer whether exposure to social gun culture predisposes one to gun ownership or whether the latter increases likelihood of participation in the former. However, this is not particularly germane to the observations being drawn here, suggesting simply that prudent gun policies that aim to reduce gun ownership and gun-related injury might need to actively consider the prevailing social gun culture in the USA. Future studies that aim to inform our understanding of gun ownership may fruitfully explore the determinants of a participation in social gun culture in the USA.

Not that hard.

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Not that hard.

Understanding the concept - or eliminating paragraph indents?

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Understanding the concept - or eliminating paragraph indents?

I was being a dick about the formatting. I'm in a mean funk. My apologies.