the-pi-guy said:
I wasn't the one to first make the comparison. For the bold. I don't believe that guns are the only problem with society. I'm not even a supporter of banning guns. Once again, please don't make such assumptions about what I believe.
Nothing like cherry picking. At the very least, the article admitted the cherry picking. First off, the gun control arguments are dubious using this chart. Take when JFK was shot, it's literally in the middle of an increase. It has the same slope on the left as the right. Florida's conceal and carry permits affected the whole country by such a gigantic amount? That doesn't seem odd at all? Even the assault weapon ban expires, you can clearly see the trend goes up slightly before going down. Secondly, it apparently removed black crimes because there were more of them. And then part of the article was dedicated to "not being racist to do that". Back to what I was saying about guns not being the only issue with society. There's a lot of causes that lead to shootings. So simply looking at one thing like gun control and trying to connect it to murder rates doesn't make sense. Things like mental illness play an enormous factor. Republican lawmakers have said similarly, and yet I still haven't seen them produce any solutions to fix it. Strangely the article tries to connect poor rural families and saying they have a lower murder rate than poor urban families. Despite the fact that the cost of living in cities tends to be higher. |
cherry picking? you do understand what you're looking at right?
the entire point of the article is that despite there being gun control the rate of violent crime in the uk has been on a steady increase and that is has been above that of the united states for decades now
