Tag: Gun Homicide: Apples and Apples
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Gun Homicide: Comparing Apples And Apples, Part IV
On Friday, we talked about comparing the US murder rate to the rest of the world. Monday, the subject was what’d happen if we excluded America’s top forty highest-crime cities from the average. Yesterday, we talked about what’d happen if we left the Old South, with its centuries of relatively violent Scots-Irish heritage, out of…
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Gun Homicide: Comparing Apples And Apples, Part III
Friday, we noted that gun grabbers try their darnedest to keep discussions of murder rates to “western, industrialized” countries – because of course brown people in the third world only matter if you can get them to vote Democrat. And yesterday, we discussed both the murder rate in America’s 50 cities with the highest murder rates, and how…
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Gun Homicide: Comparing Apples And Apples, Part II
Last Friday, we noted that to the US’s murder rate of 3.8 per 100,000 ranks 121st in the world overall. Which, to “Gun Safety” advocates, is just wrong; they insist on constraining the comparison to only “western, industrialized” countries – as if the life of a human being in Honduras or South Africa is somehow worth…
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Gun Homicide: Comparing Apples And Apples, Part I
When you get into a discussion with “Gun Safety” advocates, they usually start by knowingly, solemnly intoning that the US has some variant of “the highest gun murder rate in the developed world”. In response to which I always ask two questions: Why just “western, developed countries?”: The United States’ murder rate is actually in…