> I have never understood the conservative fetish for the Second Amendment. From a law-and-order standpoint, more guns means more murder. “States with higher rates of gun ownership had disproportionately large numbers of deaths from firearm-related homicides,” noted one exhaustive 2013 study in the American Journal of Public Health. nytimes.com/2017/10/05/opinion/guns-second-amendment-nra.html The study is desperately trying to take the conclusion that the more guns means more homicide. Six pages in the study literally tries to hide the statistical findings in a table that shows: > For each 1-SD increase in proportion of household gun ownership, firearm homicide rate increased by 12.9% >For each 1-SD increase in proportion of black population, firearm homicide rate increased by 82.8%
The percentage of households with firearms has dropped since the 50s.
Samuel Perry
46 page study by Harvard concludes banning guns would not reduce suicide or murder.
This Article has reviewed a significant amount of evidence from a wide variety of international sources. Each individual portion of evidence is subject to cavil—at the very least the general objection that the persuasiveness of social scientific evidence cannot remotely approach the persuasiveness of conclusions in the physical sciences. Nevertheless, the bur‐ den of proof rests on the proponents of the more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal less death mantra, espe‐ cially since they argue public policy ought to be based on that mantra.149 To bear that burden would at the very least require showing that a large number of nations with more guns have more death and that nations that have imposed stringent gun controls have achieved substantial reductions in criminal violence (or suicide). But those correlations are not observed when a large number of nations are compared across the world.
.National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
Mass shootings are a matter of great public interest and concern. They also are a relatively small share of shootings overall. According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics review, homicides that claimed at least three lives accounted for less than 1% of all homicide deaths from 1980 to 2008. These homicides, most of which are shootings, increased as a share of all homicides from 0.5% in 1980 to 0.8% in 2008, according to the bureau’s data. A Congressional Research Service report, using a definition of four deaths or more, counted 547 deaths from mass shootings in the U.S. from 1983 to 2012.2
You've got to be careful with statistics, because it's easy to interpret them in a biased way. It sounds like the study was biased against guns. I'm biased for guns, so see how I interpret the first statistic.
"For each 1-SD increase in proportion of household gun ownership, homicide rate increased by 12.9%". Well, it's possible that an increased homicide rate in certain areas motivated some households to buy guns for security. The correlation doesn't mean guns cause homicide.
Also, I'm a physicist, and let me say the method in this study is garbage. Even the tables are useless and stupid calculations. Going in to this is too long a story.
RasmussenReports: Only 26% of Americans trust the government to fairly enforce gun control laws. Just 38% gun control will keep them out of the hands of criminals.
So remember guys, next time someone wants to ban guns, make sure to tell them that niggers have roughly 7 times the effect on the gun homicide rate than gun ownership, and that if you say you can take away 2nd amendment, whats to stop us from taking away the 13th? It will save so many lives, think of the children!
Josiah Turner
Medical Error deaths per year 195,000 FireArm Homicides. 11,493 Cigarettes: 529,000
Criminalizing drugs only really works by imposing extra costs on a behavior. It isn't perfect, but the threat of force makes the behavior more costly. Having an armed population does the same to dissuade government tyranny both foreign and domestic.
Aiden Martinez
IT'S NOT A GUN PROBLEM IT'S A NIGGER PROBLEM
Nathan Hernandez
School attacks in China 2010. 25 dead, 115 injured. WITH A KNIFE AND CLEAVER.
>just about everything except guns kill more Americans every year >"Liberals" want to ban guns, but gun ownership is aligned with liberal ideals. Ban Democrats. They're a danger to themselves and others.
According to the FBI, about 250 people were murdered with rifles in 2014. Not just those evil “military rifles”. ALL rifles. This means that this includes grandpa’s old hunting rifles as well. On a side note here, it should also be noted that the state with the most rifle murders was California, a state that already has highly restrictive laws when it comes to so called “assault rifles”.
In conclusion the OP is kike cum sucking faggot, who failed middle school.
Oliver Flores
I think he's more pointing out that their table literally says black people have a stronger correlation with crime and murder than literally crime and murder itself.
Isaac Allen
>LITERALLY a table cited in NYT’s article: Repeal the 2nd Amendment LMFAO He's saying get rid of guns, and he's a shill.
Jayden Jenkins
Are too stupid to read comments, or are you jus tired?
Camden Carter
Tired. I posted all the info against the graph.
John Garcia
The author's linked study concluded the number of niggers is a far better indicator of gun violence.
