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All any statistical twst can do is give you a probability. Nothing can be "proven". In any event, the possibilities are not "random" and "not random", e.g. We could be seeing a poisson distribution with a very small copycat effect.

What is pretty clear is that the US has an obscenely high rate of gun violence, which is what we ahould be debating. Several thousand children die each year, and nearly one and a half Sandy Hook's occur each day.



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