Economic inequality biggest reason for violence. Not gun laws.

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Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

kowenicki said:
Stats for China and India. I have a feeling they will completely blow this out of the water.

Have to presuppose a certain degree of rule of law here. High rule of law is also why Singapore is under the curve.

That's part of it.... I mean I wouldn't rule out hard drug use personally.  I mean look at Finland and Sweeden way upthere.  What's up with that?

 

Also, i feel like i'd have to point out that any serious researcher would usually eliminate the USA, considering it to be a HUGE outlier.

I wonder if the data would correlate as nicely without the US.  I wonder if it would correlate at all.  Generally when making a linear regression you want about half of your dots above the red line, and half below.  

If you've got way too many on one side of it... that means you've got big outliers in your data corrupting your data analysis.

That's kind of my impression too. There's probably something more than income inequality going on here. I don't really know enough about the literature, but I remember Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, where (I think) he clearly had the objective of showing that gun control resulted in higher homicide rates, and even his ultimate conclusion tended to show that there are just a lot of  factor playing into murder rates.