10-28-2023, 01:29 PM
pdq wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
If you add all of the planets nations, the USA falls mid pack,
Oh, nonsense. I provide data with supporting links and you respond with bogus right-wing assertions that are completely data-free.
If you include countries that are at war, or have long-simmering insurgencies, then we slip all the way down to 53rd out of 206. The vast majority of those not at war or conflict are in the Caribbean or elsewhere in this hemisphere. (Where do you suppose they get their guns?). And we’re still number one among developed peers, by a long shot.
Mr645 wrote: …further if you remove 5 liberal run cities, Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, Washington DC and New Orleans, the USA suddenly is one of the ten safest countries for gun violence.
Double nonsense. Look, here is a map of homicide rates by county:
Or, if you prefer, ranked by state:
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
New Mexico
South Carolina
Missouri
Illinois
Maryland
Tennessee
Arkansas
…telling the same story; the areas with the highest homicide rate/gun homicide/gun violence rate are in the deep red South, where your big bad “liberal-run” cities aren’t, but where the guns are. Seven of the top ten states are “run” by gun-happy Republicans (with corresponding higher number of guns per capita). Florida, BTW, has about double the national homicide rate.
Seriously, do you ever check your data? Or just knee-jerk regurgitate whatever BS you heard?
Clearly we have issues in Mississippi, Alabama etc. but for sheer numbers, looks like California is a major problem.
Then comes Illinois, where so many here think is safe.
Austin Illinois, pop 97k, 218 people shot so far this year
Englewood Illinois, population 24,000, 204 have been shot so far this year
Garfield Park with 22,000 population, 191 of which have been shot this year.
Do some math
