Monday, December 7, 2015

All You Need to Know about the Gun Debate in Two Charts

Via David

Gun “epidemic” the New York Times says? Well, we know they are data-challenged there, but for what it’s worth, take in these two charts from my old pal Mark Perry:

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1 comment:

  1. Misleading and meaningless chart. The real leading indicator on reduced murder rates and reduced violent crime overall is the trend to keep violent criminals locked up for longer sentences. This trend started in the mid 90's. The change in gun ownership from .9 to 1.5 (whatever those are) are basically meaningless and the graph is skewed on the axis ratio to make it seem significant.

    Keeping violent people behind bars keeps them from being violent again. This isn't rocket science. It is also why we have a higher incarceration rate than most other countries. And the usual suspects point to that as something we need to fix by turning more violent criminals loose. It's a feature, not a bug.

    The crime statistics are about 2 years behind so watch for the murder rate to increase next year as a result of importing thousands of violent criminals from the third world. More "jobs Americans won't do".

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