One of the Limits of Attempting to Outlaw Possession of Handguns

question 27

Multiple Choice

One of the limits of attempting to outlaw possession of handguns is

• A) most gun crimes are not committed with handguns
• B) these laws violate Second Amendment rights
• C) most gun owners also own rifles or shotguns
• D) the large number of handguns in existence

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Definitions:

Percentile

A value below which a given percentage of observations in a group falls, used in statistics to provide a measure of relative standing within a set of values.

Cumulative Relative Frequency

The accumulation of the previous relative frequencies up to a certain class or point, showing the proportion of observations below a particular value in a dataset.

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.