States With Stand Your Ground Laws See More Homicides

[Flopper]

And yet...the Murder Rate in Florida is at a six year low at 5.2 per 100,000, matching last years five year low.

Only 2005 had a low rate (5.0 per 100,000) in the last 15 years.

Murder Rates Nationally and By State | Death Penalty Information Center

Correlation is not the same as cause and effect. Deaths in traffic accidents have decrease as gun sales have increased. So more guns means less traffic fatalities?

Major changes in crime rates are usually caused by changes in the reporting requirements, makeup of the population, enforcement, and the economy. There is really no way to prove that more guns means less murders. Simple logic would lead one to believe the opposite.

 

[Missourian]

And yet...the Murder Rate in Florida is at a six year low at 5.2 per 100,000, matching last years five year low.

Only 2005 had a low rate (5.0 per 100,000) in the last 15 years.

Murder Rates Nationally and By State | Death Penalty Information Center

Correlation is not the same as cause and effect. Deaths in traffic accidents have decrease as gun sales have increased. So more guns means less traffic fatalities?

Major changes in crime rates are usually caused by changes in the reporting requirements, makeup of the population, enforcement, and the economy. There is really no way to prove that more guns means less murders. Simple logic would lead one to believe the opposite.

The topic of this thread is " States With Stand Your Ground Laws See More Homicides".

Wouldn't your correlation argument be appropriate there as well?

Strangely, you only choose to make it here.

If the OP was correct, the murder rate should be on the increase, yet, it is not...which was the purpose of my post.