Posted on 02/26/2023 6:24:12 AM PST by rellimpank
As temperatures across the country soar and unseasonably warm days continue, the number of gun deaths across the country has gone up.
Nearly 8,000 gun shootings can be attributed to extreme temperatures, according to research published by JAMA Network.
The study analyzed 100 major U.S. cities with the highest proportion of gun violence between 2015 and 2020. It found that out of 116 ,511 shootings, roughly 6.85% (or 7,973) were attributable to above-average temperatures.
Gun violence, as well as other types of violence, such as road rage, is known to worsen in the summer. Warmer temperatures increase the body’s stress hormones in the nervous system, which may heighten violent impulses.
People also spend more time outdoors when the weather is warm, which makes encounters with others — and the potential for lethal clashes — more likely.
Why extreme heat’s impact on gun violence is
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This is evidenced because every year not too long after sportsball season ends, the temperatures start to rise, and local tribes emerge from their lairs and prepare for fighting season in America's inner cities.......
People living in and around these tribal areas use items that superstitious control freaks scientists, using supposition to support an agenda settled science,TM claim makes seasonal temperatures rise sooner and for longer...enabling tribes to get an earlier start to a now longer fighting season.
No SUPERVISION +
NO DISCIPLINE +
NO CONSEQUENCES =
FERAL BEHAVIOR
Somehow I thought the problem was single parent families with no love or discipline.
Indeed never let facts get in the way of story.
correlation vs causation?
High temps also increase sales of ice cream and rape. So, ban ice cream, says a Democratic party member.
Yeah, that is what yah hear when most of your base has an IQ<80.
Wow! This “study” is going directly to the top of my “Wacked Out Liberal Studies” list!
She doesn’t look right in the head. A retarded “Karen”. Great.
If this dumbass theory is true, what the hell is causing all that “gun violence” over in Biden’s Ukraine? Shouldn’t they have called a ceasefire once the winter hit?
Get used to it. If geologic history proves correct earth is about 3,200 years out from the next ice age...
The best part of that meme is I can’t remember the boy’s name.
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