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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Demographics certainly should be controlled for. However, I suspect that they might yield disparate results which may lessen or increase the appropriateness of their application to the campus context.
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Not necessarily. College campuses (as a general entity) consist of people of different socioeconomic backgrounds, races, and other demographic factors. There are also thousands of college students with sealed juvenile court and facility records. So the correlations found in neighborhood research can be applied to college students if we conducted a study across college campuses. THis is also one reason why researchers use college students as their sample and generalize their findings to the noncollegiate population.
Which gets to another issue regarding whose gun access is okay and whose gun access will scare the sweetbejeebus out of people:
Are people advocating legalizing guns on college campuses but only for certain types of people from certain socioeconomic backgrounds on certain types of campuses? Background checks are meant to look for background checks, mental health profiles (maybe), and so forth. Sure, background checks are a type of profiling but it isn't profiling based on factors like race and socioeconomic status. Right? It depends on who you ask.
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Aren't certain learned behaviors and criminal motivations going to be more common among certain people in certain environments?
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That's a topic in and of itself.
For the purpose of this discussion, please refer to my previous response.
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Originally Posted by shinerbock
I want to get back into this discussion, but other dueling posters have taken over after your post. Damn, these are long posts, too.
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Yeah so I bid you farewell and will go back to silent reading, I guess.