This is the kind of garbage that passes for scholarship, @EWErickson. Read the study (by a group that spits on gun control.) Why start in 2009? Why stop in 2015? They SPECIFICALLY chose those dates 2 manipulate the outcomes. Make it normal - a 10 year period - and US is number 1.
...this is what infuriates me, @EWErickson. READ studies. Don't just snap them up if they confirm what you want to believe. I thought, "Oh, that's interesting." And before I called it up, i thought, "I wonder if this is going to be BS that starts in 2009." Yup. The reason they...
...they chose an arbitrary, statistically bizarre period (six years? Who uses six years to prove a trend?) is that they KNOW those six years contain anomalies - mass shootings in countries that have not experienced many at all. What does lying accomplish? Are you TRYING to....
...deceive people? If you wish to celebrate a study, read it first. Look for its flaws, even if it agrees with your beliefs. *I* do that. Everyone should.
But If you just want to push propaganda, don't bother.
But If you just want to push propaganda, don't bother.
