Gun deaths dropped in California as they rose in Texas: Gun control seems to work

LASlimes ^ | Some fool

[MrRelevant]

California’s rate of gun deaths has declined by 10% since 2005, even as the national rate has climbed in recent years. And Texas and Florida? Their rates of gun deaths have climbed 28% and 37% respectively. California now has one of the 10 lowest rates of gun deaths in the nation. Texas and Florida are headed in the wrong direction.

Obviously, factors beyond a state’s laws can affect the rate of firearms deaths. The national health statistics take into account differences in the age distribution of state populations, but they don’t control for every factor that might affect gun deaths.

[suthener]

I thought about starting a new post for this but I’m too lazy. If you want to read the stupidest article ever written about guns, read this one. Basically they’re making the case that when all gun owners are at the NRA convention shootings decrease because the NRA members, who obviously do all the shootings, are busy at the convention.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nra-convention-gun-injuries-20180228-story.html

[wardamneagle]

Horse chit !

[BiglyCommentary]

How much of those CA DA’s not reporting or lowering gun crimes to lessor charges so the stats are phony?

[BiglyCommentary]

Gun deaths not being reported properly so politicians can claim success? We all know how they corrupt numbers for political ends.

[familyop]

Salvadore Ramos did drugs and did not buy those firearms legally.

'Let’s rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything': Parents frustrated...
Daily Mail
By Harriet Alexander
25 May 2022

"Jocelyn Rodriguez, 19, a Wendy's employee, told The New York Times that when she heard Ramos was the shooter, she was initially shocked, but then less surprised.

She knew him to have a bad temper and to snap at people...said he had a tendency to pick fights with co-workers, and would often talk about how much he hated his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted."

[Something else interesting in the article:]

"Under a new Texas law passed in September, those aged 18-21 could buy guns if they had a protective order, because they were at risk of family violence, stalking, prostitution or sex trafficking."

[Did he have a protective order against someone else? I've seen no mention of it.]

[BookmanTheJanitor]

These are gun deaths (including suicide) or murders?

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Also, the author fails to explain why the gun death rate has risen in Hawaii over the same time frame.

[mikelets456]

Homicides are homicides and they keep going up in CA. More bs spin from the left:

“ While California’s violent crime rate had decreased somewhat in 2020, homicides and aggravated assaults had increased.
California’s violent crime rate decreased by 0.5% to 428 per 100,000 residents between 2019 and 2020, an unprecedented period marked by the global COVID-19 pandemic. This change was driven by declines in robberies (14.9%) and rape (9.5%).”
https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

[Louis Foxwell]

Deaths from all other forms of murder weapons rose accordingly.

[lepton]

Well, it’s also ‘gun deaths’, which includes more than murders. It also suggests that being killed by a gun is worse than being killed by a hammer.

[sergeantdave]

I wonder why the lying BLM racists at the LA Times picked the year 2005?

Well, that’s the only year where their propaganda narrative works.

The Mexicans are on the verge of taking over LA County from the white, BLM racists. And the KKK white democrats are scared.

[sergeantdave]

“How soon before they starting calling it Texafornia ??”

At one time, the entire south voted democrat, until it didn’t.

[gibsonguy]

To be clear l was referring to the LA. Times’s not your analysis.

[fruser1]

Oh, sorry about that! I guess my comprehension was off!

[gibsonguy]

No worries my friend, it was my fault l should have been more clear.