More guns, less murder in one graph

YouTube ^ | Jan 23, 2015 | Bill Whittle

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If you have not yet seen Bill Whittle's video "Number One With a Bullet," you should. It is as succinct a rebuttal to anything the gun-control freaks can come up with as you will find.

Here is a link to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pELwCqz2JfE

Here are links to the three data sources that he references.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate

I snagged the data from the first two links and plotted "Guns per 100K Residents" on the X-axis and "Murders per 100K Residents" on the Y-axis.

I call it "More Guns, Less Murder."

Submitted for your approval.

[Puppage]

But....but....The children!

[sakic]

That graph reminds me of a vibrating football game I had as a kid.

[Lee'sGhost]

If anybody is looking for the first mentioned video it’s “Number one with a BULLET”.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I had already asked the moderator to fix it. We’ll see.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I did provide a link, so they don’t have to look for it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Whittle BUMP! For later viewing. His videos give me the chills - I love them! :)

[showme_the_Glory]

That graph reminds me of a vibrating football game I had as a kid.

reminds me of the Hot Crazy matrix on youtube.

[expat2]

Good work. Suggestions: 1. You need the axes labeled, or it's meaningless. 2. Try fitting it to something like
m=900/(g+90) or m=a/(g+b)**2

[re_nortex]

That graph reminds me of a vibrating football game I had as a kid.

It looks my ant farm from my younger days. Why I invited ants into my bedroom as a yute is one of those unsolved quandaries in the "what was I thinking" chapter.

All kidding aside, an armed society really is a polite society. And where there are guns, there is good.

[Robert357]

Thanks! Bump for future reference

[doc11355]

Don’t you think that actually labelling the X and Y axes would help us to understand the graph?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I did this with on online linear regression calculator. I couldn't find anything for curve fitting. I'll keep looking.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I labeled the X-axis wrong.

[expat2]

You could convert your data by plotting 1/m against g and doing a regression analysis on that.

[imardmd1]

I see you have given the labels for the abscissa and the ordinate, as well as a legend. However, there is no particular relationship between the data as presented and a least-squares model. You need more dependent variables if guns per capita is the independent variable.

[Gamecock]

So if there are no guns what is killin' all them folk? </snark>

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I found an article that already did the graph.

Comparing murder rates and gun ownership across countries