Penn researchers investigated the link between being shot in an assault and a person’s possession of a gun at the time of the shooting. As identified by police and medical examiners, they randomly selected 677 cases of Philadelphia residents who were shot in an assault from 2003 to 2006. Six percent of these cases were in possession of a gun (such as in a holster, pocket, waistband, or vehicle) when they were shot.
These shooting cases were matched to Philadelphia residents who acted as the study’s controls. To identify the controls, trained phone canvassers called random Philadelphians soon after a reported shooting and asked about their possession of a gun at the time of the shooting. These random Philadelphians had not been shot and had nothing to do with the shooting.
Awesome logic there.
So people who got assaulted in areas/situations bad enough that they thought they needed to carry a gun in the first place were more likely to be shot than people you called at random in the city who probably avoid those places/situations. AMAZING!
So basically a gang banger on the east side gets shot and has a gun on him. The next day a random phone survey is made to people around WNY who probably never go near the ghetto who don’t carry guns. Since those people weren’t shot and don’t carry guns we can now safely conclude that carrying a gun will make you likely to be shot. That’s the kind of logic the government of NY runs on.
