Tell me why NH has a murder rate more than 4 times lower than CA despite CA having the harshest gun laws in the country
very bad, terrible comparison--WRONG
......anyone that graduated high school science/math knows for a hypothesis to be valid/etc using comparisons, the test subjects have be comparable/etc--ETC
..NH population 1.3 million
..Cali
39 million with twice the density
that's why
AND the laws are not federal
Funny how you talk about education yet you do not understand ratios
The murder RATE is murders per 100,00 it matters not if you compare different states because the RATIO accounts for population size
But if I didn't understand ratios and used your argument then your comparison of murder rates between the UK and the US is invalidated because the UK has a population od 66 million and the US has a population of 350 million
And no the laws are not federal which is why the comparison between states is relevant.
There are 23 states that have murder RATES less than CA and CA has the harshest gun laws in the country so if gun laws actually lowered murder rates then CA would have the lowest rate in the country and NH would have a much higher murder rate.
Our murder rate is driven by relatively few very distinct areas in the country that are ultra violent. These areas are those that are historically plagued by segregation, poverty, unemployment , underemployment, substandard education, crime, drugs and gangs.
70% of all murders occur in these areas which tend to be inner city neighborhoods that exist in very small areas of just 2% of all the counties in the US.
We do not have a gun problem. We have a cancer in our inner cities that breeds enough violence and murder so as to skew the rates for the entire country
also, France, Great Britain, and Germany--lower murder rates
the numbers are too large and right there to argue
We have very real and very relevant differences from those countries that go far beyond gun laws
....here --plain as day--I see in all the comment sections ALL the time--and from you and 2A that Cali, LA, CHi, etc have strict gun laws but so many murders--BULLSHIT
their murder rates are LOWER than many pro-gun states
look at the map here-very pro-gun Mo, Texas, Alaska, etc
NYork, Cali, and Illinois firearm mortality rates LOWER
the
MAIN point being you people ALWAYS bring up strict gun control in California and Chi as not working--but they ARE--as the numbers
undeniably show
....you use Chicago as your
BEST example of strict gun laws not working YET, very pro-gun St Louis has a much higher murder rate
....
AND --ADDED to that----- [ the HOME run that smashes ALL your arguments ] Chi is not even in the top ten
most dangerous cities--but STL [ very pro-gun ] STL IS in the top ten--
number 1 sometimes
the very PRO-gun city is the most dangerous city
this makes 2AGuy's crime states/etc irrelevant/nonsensical
case is closed
FBI:
St. Louis Is America's Most Dangerous City: FBI
STL news
St. Louis Bumps Detroit Out for Most Dangerous City
etc
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