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Comment by quarantaseih

TL/DR but I'm sure its all very interesting

However, I didn't state a statistical fact, or assert the effect of guns on the amount of criminality.

"Widespread gun ownership significantly lowers the EV of committing crime."

EV is expected value, not expectation. That is, I didn't say that crime is less likely. I said that a person who comes into a house in the US has a not insignificant chance of leaving on a stretcher, which I consider negative value from the invader's PoV.

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