Sqrl on 02 October 2009
| highwaystar101 said: Let's see, hmm, one thing stands out... Oh yeah, it's not even about homicide rates... Your graph is about violent crime, not homicide. Do you think they picked violent crime on purpose, violent crimes likely does not involve guns, it can be anything from a guy picking a fight in a bar to a guy mugging someone. Seems like a cherry picked thing to me. It also goes to discredit your point as you used the violent crimes figures to disprove homicide figures. the two things are unrelated. |
Homicide statistics, like violent crime statistics, are not specifically keyed to guns...so I'm not sure how you think the two are different enough in that regard to justify preferring homicides over violent crimes for analysis. Granted I don't think either of them make strong arguments....but asserting that one makes a better argument than the other seems unsubstantiated.
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