In US, racism is linked to gun ownership

I guess im a racist then and I don't care. Still can't have my gun commies.

I think it's racist for black gangs to all have 9mm and glocks. There, i guess im racist now. Blacks with 9mm and glocks are in a gang. Thats pretty much the "common sense" this article uses.

The correlation seems backward, or at least the way it is phrased in this forum. Owing a gun can't influence levels of bigotry, it's an inanimate object. I would think it would be the other way around if anything. PERHAPS I could see that racists are more likely to own guns, NOT that owning a gun makes you more likely to magically become racist.

Quite so, you're right to point out that my statement made no sense. The relationship, the order of operations, which is the influencer and which is the influenced.

I guess you're right. Maybe I just don't like the way the topic title and OP have been phrased. If we were talking religion, one would state that the odds of being an atheist has been linked with education levels, NOT that education levels have been linked with atheism, as if one is more likely to go to get a Masters Degree if an atheist.

I believe the part you cut out of my quote is the explanation for my rationale. Things can be linked, that link is often ordered in a specific way, and I think that the language conveys and the nuance of that link and the order.

Well, I think that often the causation vs. correlation argument is an excercise in semantics. That is not a criticism, just an observation. Something might often be seen in tandem with something (correlation) while not directly caused by that something (causation), but in my experience that doesn't always mean that they are equal, or that the distinction is that simple. In effect, there can be a correlation (as opposed to causation but not excluding all elements of same), but distinguished by one of the correlated factors being the "senior partner" while the other is the "junior partner."

you might want to look up causation and correlation

.............What?

Non-white races own guns too ya know.

the study was only on white people who are racist against black people

I just caught you trolling someone else in another thread. How many of these "semantics" troll games do you play with people?

Probably because gun ownership is correlated with redneckness.

Welfare queens too. Far more likely to be liberal.

Causation vs. correlation is not an exercise in semantics, but the arguments regarding same often are.