Episode 101: Fear Fuels Faulty Reasoning Regarding Rifles
Americans are pretty concerned about violent crime—particularly crimes committed with guns, “assault weapons” most specifically. This concern, statistically speaking, is fairly irrational. You are far more likely to be killed by being beaten or stabbed than you are to be killed by any kind of rifle, “assault” or otherwise. So why are so many people so tied up in knots about it? Join James Harrigan and Antony Davies as they discuss this and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.
Quick hits
Corona brewing replaces plastic six-pack rings
Illegal immigrants and Social Security numbers…
The skinny
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