Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS

Well let’s go back to what you first wrote, where I will add some emphasis:

Gallup’s Mirror wrote:

That is, except for statistics from 27 countries (a rather big picture) which show a relationship between more firearms and more firearm deaths. The clinical research study published in the American Journal of Medicine concluded that more guns strongly and independently predict more gun deaths regardless of the causal relationship. From the study:

And your quote from the study:

CONCLUSION
“The number of guns per capita per country was a strong and independent predictor of firearm-related death in a given country, whereas the predictive power of the mental illness burden was of borderline significance in a multivariable model. Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the widely quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer.”

The study claims to have found a link between firearms ownership rates and “firearm-related death,” not the aggregate murder rate.

Furthermore, that is what you yourself wrote the first time around, but now you are trying to claim otherwise.