I present arguments that could be considered "misleading" based on the administrations official position. Personally, I'd like to actually fix the issues, to do so, we need to discuss the issues. With that, I wrote something we can use as a framework to discuss the issues.
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I simply deep dive into the data and found interesting results that differ (this is just a random selection):
(2) White, Hispanic, Asian populations have one of the lowest firearm homicide rates in the world. In contrast, the black population has one of the highest firearm homicide rates are very high, which pushes the U.S. average up. (which arguably could support the systemic racism theory, but is a fact) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Comparin...
(3) The CDC & FBI crime statistics show that <0.5% of the population is murdered by firearms in a given year (~1-1.5% if you include suicides).
(4) Self-defense homicides are included in the data
Sorry but your content is misleading. Take for example the following quote, from Amnesty International, which cite in your article:
> governments [with] poor regulation of the possession and use of guns lead to violence and that they must tackle this now through strict controls on guns and effective interventions in communities suffering high levels of gun violence.
From this say the following:
> The key statement is:
Guns lead to violence
The statement above implies a couple of things:
1. Gun volume and violence are correlated
2. As the number of guns increase, violence increases
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This is a blatant distortion of what that quote from Amnesty is saying.
That are clearly saying that _poor regulation of the possession and use of guns_ leads to violence.
You are quite obviously engaging in bad faith arguments.
I think you’re splitting hairs, and this is my point — you pulled one quote out of a many thousand word document. Not only that, you suggest dismissing all the actual data based on this quote. This is an introductory quote that has no bearing on literally _anything_ presented. The framing of the discussion, perhaps, but not the data or conclusions.
In terms of why I thought this was interesting, the key statement is:
> poor regulation of the possession and use of guns
Meaning, the regulation of possession (I.e. reduced number of guns in peoples hands, particularly of certain classes of people) and use of guns, i.e. when they can be used (open carry vs conceal vs home only, etc).
There’s no bad faith, this is literally what they said. I then expand and look at factors that should have correlations to the above.
What I did is look at the data we had. The data actually indicates the places with the strictest gun laws in the US have the highest firearm related homicides. This implies regulations aren’t the issue (enforcement perhaps?). Regardless, the rest of the thousands of words explain and explore the topic.
https://efsgv.org/learn/learn-more-about-gun-violence/public...
I present arguments that could be considered "misleading" based on the administrations official position. Personally, I'd like to actually fix the issues, to do so, we need to discuss the issues. With that, I wrote something we can use as a framework to discuss the issues.
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I simply deep dive into the data and found interesting results that differ (this is just a random selection):
(1) There doesn't appear to be a correlation between firearm access and homicides (if anything it's slightly reverse) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Firearms...
(2) White, Hispanic, Asian populations have one of the lowest firearm homicide rates in the world. In contrast, the black population has one of the highest firearm homicide rates are very high, which pushes the U.S. average up. (which arguably could support the systemic racism theory, but is a fact) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Comparin...
(3) The CDC & FBI crime statistics show that <0.5% of the population is murdered by firearms in a given year (~1-1.5% if you include suicides).
(4) Self-defense homicides are included in the data
(5) Gangs don't appear to be the reason for a high firearm homicide rate https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Gang_Dem...
(6) Homicides per firearm are very low https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#Homicide...
(7) You're more likely to be beat to death or stabbed than shot (arguably guns would save you from this) https://austingwalters.com/firearms-by-the-numbers/#_Circums...