House minority leader trying to blame video games for mass shootings. Update: Walmart pulls violent video game ads for 2 weeks

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Conina said:

irstupid said:

For most Americans, it's you need to not drive 5 hours straight to get to just the city, then go out of your way to find the dangerous part that you would have zero reason to go to as everything you would want in the city would be available somewhere else. 

Most Americans don't have to drive 5 hours to the next city... 82% of them already live in a city / urbanized area with a high population density:

http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/us-cities-factsheet

The trend of moving to the cities has been going on for decades... the cities are drawing the population. Approximately 82% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950. By 2050, 90% of the U.S. population is projected to live in urban areas.

irstupid said:

That is where 99% of all gun related deaths, not counting suicides happen. Like .001% of the entire US is a no go zone. One would have to make it their goal to be in those areas, to ever be in those areas.

[citation needed]

Just wanted to say thank you for your breakdown of the states gun death rate earlier in the thread, I was at work and couldn't post at all on my phone for some reason, think... a phone post wouldn't have done justice what I wanted to put down anyway.

You know that Citation needed part at the end, I was going to call it out on my phone as well but like I said was limited... imagine if what he typed there was true, so that 99% of the gun related deaths happened in a region which was just .001% of the entire US, so.... in that Utopia you have effectively 0 gun deaths per 100k in 99.999% of the country... and in that .001% of the land you have to take on the burden of what would be 12 deaths per 100k... meaning you would need to bring that up by around 99000 times so that the average death rate would reach the 12 per 100k over the whole of the USA, that would mean... in that one horror patch of land in this fantasy which covers .001% of the land of the USA, you would need a death rate of 1,188,000 people per 100,000 to die to guns, so each person would need to be killed nearly 12 times by guns in this one bad part of town for the math to work out.

@pokoko At it's very best in the states, in the lowest regions as stated in Conina's post that being MA the death rate there is still 4.25 that of Ireland, taking a trip to the worst states for it of Alaska and Alabama then the probability of death by gun is increased 29.125x over where I currently live, this is why as an average the figure works out to be 15x greater over all the states, I'm not going to do the math on each alley and each neighbourhood... I'm looking at a scale of danger from a thing which scales from 4.25x more likely all the way up to 29.125x more likely, I'm not "pretending I didn't say it" I'm asking you to concede that it is the case no matter where I would go there, death by gun is far more likely to happen than it is here.

Also if you bold a point to emphasis just how massive something is... and that is wrong, I'm going to call it out, you do the internet version of stomp your foot and point at a figure, it's wrong, it's not me being an asshole to point to why what you're beginning your poor argument of "some places have less shootings though! like this street down the road from me is lovely" has even less grounds to stand on because if you think the sizes matter so much to bold them, then they should matter enough to know which is larger than the other, they're close in size alright but even then it falls to Europe by a bit rather than USA being larger.

edit - Whoa at that list, didn't realise Ireland is so low down on that, 17th from the bottom, good job us! Most of our differences are worked out with potato battles and drinking competition clearly.... (and knacker bare knuckle boxing... but we shouldn't go into that too much!)