| pokoko said: The same thing? I didn't write a paper in order to sway people to one side or the other. That paragraph ends with the implied conclusion that violent crime is the same in the US and Japan. You really think the writer was trying to do otherwise? Edit: OK, now that's what you're doing. Obviously I'm refering to different sections, such as where it lists the top 10 most violent nations along with a strawman about the US having the worst crime in the world. Has anyone ever suggested that we're worse than Russia or Mexico? |
Of course not. But you often see people making the claim that a) banning guns will reduce murder rates, and b) banning guns will reduce suicide, and Japan is frequently used as an example of a low-gun-society.
The fact is that the USA has a higher rate of violence without guns, and Japan still has a very high suicide rate without guns.
As for the edit: well, I wasn't sure. Seems as if you're only jumping to random pages (that, or you're reading the whole thing, and so far have only found two issues worth pointing out, and using to dismiss the whole document). People will read through this thread without clicking the link. They see you write "compare to poverty stricken countries" and think that you're talking about the whole document... when it's like, what, one graph and 10 words out of 100 pages?
