re: Interesting new research data on guns in America

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This is a contradiction.

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not really

it's only a contradiction if you assume that genetics (and more specifically, genetics leading to different races) is our only controlling variable

i believe genetics gives us all different "speed limits", but that the gap between 0 and that speed limit is much larger than the various comparative speed limits. that gap between 0 and our limit is molded by non-genetic factors

those factors take different forms. rearing, culture, etc...down to simple luck/chance (a prodigy in one era would almost always be a social outcast in the preceding era)