Everybody’s Lying About The Link Between Gun Ownership And Homicide
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago
B J Campbell:
There is no clear correlation whatsoever between gun ownership rate and gun homicide rate. Not within the USA. Not regionally. Not internationally. Not among peaceful societies. Not among violent ones. Gun ownership doesn’t make us safer. It doesn’t make us less safe. A bivariate correlation simply isn’t there. It is blatantly not-there. It is so tremendously not-there that the “not-there-ness” of it alone should be a huge news story.
A correlation coefficient (R^2) of < 0.5%. Worthless.
Be sure to read the rest of his piece, where he fisks the jobs that Mother Jones, Vox and others do with the data. Spread it far and wide.
On March 11, 2019 at 7:52 am, Pat Hines said:
I first asserted, over 20 years ago, that no country has ever reduced their death rate via gun control, not one, not ever.
I maintain that assertion today.
On March 11, 2019 at 9:16 am, Fred said:
There are several glaring examples however, of the death rate skyrocketing under gun control regimes. The study is flawed because it exempts death at the hands State agents as homicide. I suppose in those glaring examples one could conclude that the State was making war but none the less, war on your own people not of rightful defense is homicide. Killing a person, any person, is homicide, the obligation to Holy God under His law is the only exemption, the State does not get a pass and the State is NOT a god. Convincing the State of this would require the men of Christ’s church to enforce His law, and well, have you been in an American Church lately?
On March 12, 2019 at 7:41 pm, Gryphon said:
Filter for Homicide committed (Gun or all Other) by “persons of Color” and the U.S. has a Lower Homicide Rate (per White Person) than almost any Euro-Peon Nation where Guns are Banned.
It’s Not the Guns, it’s the feral savages from non-white City locations.