{"id":62996,"date":"2017-05-04T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62996"},"modified":"2017-05-03T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:04:52","slug":"concentrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62996","title":{"rendered":"Concentrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2017\/04\/number-murders-county-54-us-counties-2014-zero-murders-69-1-murder\/\">2% of US counties have 51% of the murders<\/a>, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Map-US-Murder-Fixed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62997 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Map-US-Murder-Fixed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Map-US-Murder-Fixed.jpg 723w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Map-US-Murder-Fixed-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Map-US-Murder-Fixed-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>54% of US counties had zero murders in 2014 (the most recent year for which national crime data is available by county.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>69% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 20% of the population. These counties account for only 4% of all murders in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The worst 1% of counties have 19% of the population and 37% of the murders. The worst 5% of counties\u00a0contain 47% of the population and account for 68% of murders. As shown in figure 2, over half of murders occurred in only 2% of counties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>m sensing a bit of a correlation, here:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62998\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62998\" class=\"wp-image-62998 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"811\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_.png 1280w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_-300x190.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_-768x487.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_-1024x649.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2016_Presidential_Election_by_County.svg_-473x300.png 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 Election results by county<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So it seems Democrat governance is correlated with death.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; wait for it &#8211; here&#8217;s\u00a0another correlation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62999 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map.png 1200w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map-300x243.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map-768x621.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map-1024x828.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gun-ownership-study-state-map-371x300.png 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2% of US counties have 51% of the murders, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center: 54% of US counties had zero murders in 2014 (the most recent year for which national crime data is available by county. 69% of counties have no more than one murder, and about 20% of the population. These counties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63000,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62996\/revisions\/63000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}