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Torillian on 24 June 2019
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eva01beserk said:
the-pi-guy said:

I like how you used an article titled " California—with tougher gun control—has lower gun-death rate than most states" to show how gun control must not be working.  

The quality of life is rated lowly due to social and environmental factors.  

Environmental factors: are poor because California has around 40 million people in a mountainous environment that holds onto pollution. 

https://www.arb.ca.gov/knowzone/students/airpollu/airpolpage/whyis.htm

Not exactly due to a policy failure.  A policy to change the environment would be ridiculously expensive, if it were possible at all. 

Social is a bit more complicated, but one of the measures is what percentage of people are voting.  A lot of people say they aren't interested or they don't have faith in government.  Which isn't really specific enough to know what's going on.  People might have low faith in government just because their party doesn't tend to win, and people might not be interested because their party does tend to win, for an example.  

Did you read the article? It was very short. The very first paragraph says what I stated, it leads in mass shootings. Lower death rate with guns was not my statement. 

QOL is not rated low due to only social and environmental factors. it mentions it takes those 2 factors into consideration and there is no one on earth that would suggest the environment is bad in California. Its still called one of the most beautiful places and one of the best climates. QOL being so low is due to a lot of other factors, some mentioned in the other rankings, one of them being that while it has the most money due to the big tech giants that are there, the opportunity is also one of the lowest, cuz as mentioned before, that money does not trickle down and the elites live in gated communities while the middle class vanishes and massive poverty strikes the state. 

California leads in mass shootings when you don't account for population. Which is one of the stupidest ways to compare different areas. If I told you China had 8 mass shooting in 2018 and Belgium had 7 would you really just say "welp that's interesting, China had the most mass shootings, they need to get their shit together" and move on with your day?

From your article: "With another mass shooting in California, number 19 since 1984, the state leads the nation in most deaths from these kinds of violent killings—but only because it is by far the most populous state."

It's no. 20 in economic opportunity, the reason opportunity in general is so low is because of affordability. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california



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