Interesting and somewhat nuanced summary of the research here:
https://www.newsweek.com/gun-deaths-united-states-firearms-1463911
A broader discussion here (original research is behind a paywall):
Interesting and somewhat nuanced summary of the research here:
https://www.newsweek.com/gun-deaths-united-states-firearms-1463911
A broader discussion here (original research is behind a paywall):
Michelle's right to bare arms wrote:
Interesting and somewhat nuanced summary of the research here:
https://www.newsweek.com/gun-deaths-united-states-firearms-1463911A broader discussion here (original research is behind a paywall):
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gun-related-deaths-increased-by-14-except-for-one-group-of-americans-2019-10-08
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Okay, I wouldn't have guessed those two TBH...even though I live in NYC, which has a lower homicide rate than the U.S. average.
So, yeah, interesting.
kibitzer wrote:
Okay, I wouldn't have guessed those two TBH...even though I live in NYC, which has a lower homicide rate than the U.S. average.
So, yeah, interesting.
Interesting, yes, but a better correlation is to policing efforts in inner cities. After the State's AG Marilyn Mosby charged six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore in 2015, homicides skyrocketed.
"What Mosby basically did was send a message to the Baltimore police department: 'I'm going to put you in jail for making a bad arrest.' So officers figured it out: 'I can go to jail for making the wrong arrest, so I'm not getting out of my car to clear a corner,' and that's exactly what happened post-Freddie Gray." (Source: see link below)
Homicides in Baltimore almost immediately increased by 50% and remain 50% higher today. (Source below.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_BaltimoreThere is a stronger correlation between gang-related and inner-city violence to homicides than to gun control measures. The correlation continues throughout the US. For example...
Tennessee has relatively lax gun control laws and ranks 8th in homicides/capita, but if you remove Shelby County (Memphis), it drops to 37th.
A single anecdote/example does not establish correlation.
Removing any metropolitan area from a state’s per-capita homicide rate would drop it’s comparative ranking. This is not simply due to gang violence, but a variety of factors including socio-economic disparity, quality of life, housing availability and educational equity in addition to those of policing and legislation.
Big picture is big.