Interestingly enough, Wyoming has a murder rate the same as right across the border in more gun-controlled Canada...about a third of the US as a whole.
BC factors giving Canada a low murder rate give Wyoming a low murder rate...and those don't include lower gun ownership.
Similarly, there are many US states that combine very low firearm ownership with very high murder rates.
The highest "state" murder rate in the country is that of Washington, DC, which has a murder rate of 21.8, more than twenty times that of Wyoming
DC also has the strictest gun bans in the US... and the lowest gun ownership rate in the country, with gun ownership numbers less than in many European states.
Gun ownership numbers are utterly irreverent to gun homicide rate. You are wrong.
Second off, let's limit it 2 JUST Europe...where citizens are "without guns."
There's no correlation supporting "more guns = more homicide."
R^2 = 0.0184. Garbage.
Because key factor here isn't guns, it's "how violent is the society."
If we go global, and drop it into Excel, there's NOT correlation ur way here.
Here's an actual graph with a proper axis value. and an R^2 of 0.01. More Garbage again!
Heck, firearm homicide rates are actually higher in countries with VERY few guns.
The United States’ homicide rate of 3.8 is clearly higher than that of eg France (1.0), Germany (0.8), Australia (1.1), or Canada (1.4).
Our nonfirearm murder rate is 1.2.
In other words, our non-firearm homicide rate alone is higher than those countries total homicide rate
It took SIX WEEKS to declare a victor and (more) progressive candidate refused to concede...went on MSNBC and said “voter suppression is a real thing" in the Dem party.
This happened because #USPS got overwhelemed in a fairly low turnout race relative to general election.
If I have spare time, I'll write a short novel about all the ways it's wrong.
Reporters continually show their ignorance when they pick a single metric & focus on a single state.
Florida is being treated badly because they have good Sunshine Laws. Other states are FAR worse (like New York and New Jersey), but just aren't publishing the data in a comprehensive format.
For example, here's WaPo mad that DeSantis said the models were wrong about everything.
Here's the WaPo admitting that the models were wrong.
So their position seems to be, "only we can say the models were wrong, even though they're wrong."
Ok, let's explain why the US is in a good position to deal with #WuhanCoronavirus relative to single payer systems thanks to capitalism relative to the Euro healthcare systems we constantly get lied to about.
1/7
The US has about 4 to 6 times as many ICU beds per capita as the UK.
The UK, Italy, and other public systems have almost no surge capacity...as their only means of controlling costs is care rationing.
2/7
The UK has regular "winter crises" from the freaking flu every single year because they increase demand for care, because why not go if its *free* and you already paid for it during taxation?
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Most kids on campus go there with the goal of getting an education, not being a soldier in the culture wars.
They know (correctly) that woke admins and students have 1 million ways to get back at you...so they just knuckle under.
"Courage" CAN'T be a requirement to be a con.
I've told this story a lot, but the campus mob came for me in 2013...weeks before I graduate... for "climate denial" (aka being pro nuclear) and anti-Soviet Union.
Yes...seriously...
I'd said on my personal FB that USSR killed more people than the Nazis.