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In reply to the discussion: State firearm legislation and non-fatal injuries: What’s the relationship? [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)21. Theres no misleading on my part.
All I did was peel away the layers of dishonesty, Which is why you responded:
The unvarnished truth offends you, and so you feel you must add varnish.
You evidently do not understand what a rate measures.
I understand EXACTLY what a rate measures, and exactly why you lot default to it. It hides the fact that strict gun control states are utter failures, and attempts to shift the focus to states with 'promiscuous' gun laws, by making them seem like the most dangerous places around, in spite of having gun death numbers that are in the double digit range.
No you cannot disregard New Mex, Alaska, or Nevada from the list of top ten violent crime rate states. They have HIGHER violent crime rates than California & New York, which have stricter gun control.
Oh, look, Alaska with its lack of gun control had 2.8 gun murders per 100k. How many gun murders caused the rate to go that high? A whopping 19. Say it out loud jimmy, nineteen. Why did 19 gun murders cause the rate to go so high? Low population.
While strict gun control NY Has a rate of 2.7 per 100k, it had 517.
Ca with their rate of 3.4 per 100k had 1257 gun murders.
New Mexico had 3.3 per 100k with its 67 gun murders. How did 67 gun murders cause NM to have a rate near that of CA? Because NM has a very small population.
NV had a rate of 3.1 gun murders per 100k, with its 67 gun murders. Why did 67 gun murders cause NV to have a higher rate than NY? Because NV has a low population.
Too bad so sad Jimmy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state
You haven't either, you only think you did.
No James, you only think I didn't.
Whether you know it or not, you just got owned in the face.
Duh, mine measured violent crime rates, your map/chart measures index (of gundeaths I now see). I'm gonna buy you a copy of 'statistics for dummies', you couldn't recognize a fact from progun propaganda unless your life depended on it.
(and the rest of the garbage you posted for that matter)
Blah blah blah.
if so you need go back to playing softball on the junior varsity, you're out of your league with me.
Jimmy, I could have Alzheimer's, be half asleep, and in the burn ward on a morphine drip, and I'd still have no problems with the parochial sophomoric screeds you and your anti-gun buddies post regularly.
And as to being 'out of your league'...someday you'll know better than I do about this topic.
Of course, I'll be at my own funeral, when that day comes.
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State firearm legislation and non-fatal injuries: What’s the relationship? [View all]
SecularMotion
Aug 2015
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After accounting for differences in states’ socio-demographic characteristics and economic condition
the band leader
Aug 2015
#1
Also, check-out this chart comparing gun violence rates to district voting patterns in 2012.
branford
Aug 2015
#5
Inconvenient truths that can't be obscured via bafflegab are simply ignored
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#17
Per *your own source*, 9 of the 10 lowest crime states are pro gun:
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#15
Why doesn't the # of guns in the US correlate with violent crime rates?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#16
After "accounting for socio-demographic characteristics and economic conditions,"
branford
Aug 2015
#8
comparing a state with less than 800,000 people to a state with over 38 million people
the band leader
Aug 2015
#24
Gun laws and non-fatal injuries = Controllers are constantly shooting themselves in the foot.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#4