Discussion post Question

Read about the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment in Chapters 1 and 4 in your text.
Enhance your knowledge about this experiment by supplementing your knowledge at websitehttp://www.policefoundation.org/content/kansas-city-preventive-patrol-experiment
Discuss one of the following statements in terms of what you learned about the criteria of causation and threats to the validity of causal inference. What cause-and-effect relationships are implied? What are some alternative explanations?
Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.
Capital punishment prevents murder.
Marijuana is a gateway drug that leads to the use of other drugs.
Answer one question in a few paragraphs.

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The controversy regarding gun control has been on ongoing for some sometime now following the increasing rates of mass killings in the recent years. These incidences of mass shootings and increased homicides have lightened up the debate surrounding gun ownership with some people supporting gun control laws while others advocating for gun ownership.

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