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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
So in effect you're saying that Nazir & Pritti are wrong? Is that correct?
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It's yet another report that has been misapplied.
Not long ago another report on gun crime came out. Yet again it was misused. The term "gun crime" covers an awful lot, ranging from marginally unsafe storage of validly registered shotguns to ownership and use to kill, in connection with several fully automatic weapons. Hardly the same are they? Yet they were conveniently lumped together to
dilute the number of those responsible for the more serious gun crimes.
This misuse of reports and studies has been happening for some time. They widen the scope of definitions to include as many people as possible when there actually distinct groups.
A classic example is use of the term BAME, to avoid separating out the distinct parts of that group. Use in this context of the term "Asian" is also misleading, not many Sikhs, Hindus, Chinese, Japanese etc, involved.