The author, Guy Smith, also visits this site here and there. Can't recall his account name, though.
I’ve also read that if you remove a certain “demographic” we’re about the same homicide rate as Sweden.
check John Lott’s website. that’s where I’d start.
John Lott is the best source. You could check his website.
This could very well be from John Lott.I would check with him or scan his book as he actually has all the numbers needed to make that conclusion and he keeps them updated.
If I remember correctly he is on this forum.
Does that include suicides?
Paging Mr. Lott...
Not even close to their highest for gun homicide, the US isn’t even in the top ten. Hondouras, Argentina, Brazil, somolia, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq..
Well, you get the picture. The one spot which the US takes top place is in ownership rates.
Of course, we ALWAYS believe what’s in the newspaper and on the Internet. The media NEVER lie to us or obfuscate the truth, do they?
The go to FReeper about gun statistics is marktwain. This is because a lot of gun statistics are uncertain, deceptive and confusing. Even the FBI has a hard time getting accurate crime stats, for their annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR), because states vary widely in what and how they report.
As an example, Arizona is listed in the top ten for “gun homicides”, but 71% of its homicides are suicides. If you adjust for that, Arizona has one of the lowest per capita murder rates in the US.
Likewise, if you adjust the statistics for race, black Americans far outnumber all other ethnic groups per capita in both murderers *and* victims.
And marktwain is one of those few individuals who has the patience to punch through the confusion to get through to the reality.
This is not helped by the left not only embracing deceptive and contrived data, but continuing to parrot it even when it is shown to be nonsense.
On the plus side, there has been a strong effort to associate “blue states” and their gun control with crime. So what you want should be available.
I suspect data is also broken down by location, but it may take a little digging to find it in that format.
The author, Guy Smith, also visits this site here and there. Can't recall his account name, though.
Take out Hispanic and black crime and we are the lowest.
Remove the places with the strictest gun control - and THEN remove the crimes committed by young gang-bangers.
The numbers become miniscule.