{"id":65986,"date":"2018-02-19T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65986"},"modified":"2018-02-18T12:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T18:36:48","slug":"a-couple-inconvenient-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65986","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Inconvenient Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mass shootings <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2015\/06\/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe\/\">are neither more frequent not more severe in the US than in other countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we&#8217;re only counting western first-world countries, Mitcih&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s count Western first-world countries:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-66009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.43-PM.png 521w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.43-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.43-PM-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.43-PM-301x300.png 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep.\u00a0 Including counties full of white people &#8211; the only ones the gun grabbers really care aboiut.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that&#8217;s death rates, which get skewed by small numbers of attacks in small countries!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right, because France, Belgium and Canada are small countries.<\/p>\n<p>OK, let&#8217;s look at the actual frequency of mass shootings, per capita &#8211; which makes all countries the same<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.50-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-66010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.50-PM.png 553w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.50-PM-300x287.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-18-at-12.32.50-PM-314x300.png 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Huh.\u00a0 So the US i s down the list even in terms of episodes per million people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well you&#8217;re a racist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass shootings are neither more frequent not more severe in the US than in other countries. &#8220;But we&#8217;re only counting western first-world countries, Mitcih&#8221;. OK.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s count Western first-world countries: Yep.\u00a0 Including counties full of white people &#8211; the only ones the gun grabbers really care aboiut. &#8220;But that&#8217;s death rates, which get skewed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65986","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=65986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66011,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65986\/revisions\/66011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}