Reply To: THE PUZZLE OF MURDER-BY-GUN STATISTICS
The study claims to have found a link between firearms ownership rates and “firearm-related death,” not the aggregate murder rate.
And that is why it refutes Unseen’s claim that there is no “NO RELATION WHATSOEVER between the rate of gun ownership and the murder rate”.
You’re not suggesting that “firearm related deaths” exclude murder or that such murders are not part of the aggregate murder rate?
Please.
Furthermore, that is what you yourself wrote the first time around, but now you are trying to claim otherwise.
I did not claim otherwise.
Before we start using terms like “liar”, it really seems like there’s a misunderstanding. You seem to be conflating murder in general with murder by a specific method. Removing one method of committing murder does not necessarily prevent those murders, since there are clearly alternative methods. I found the same thing in my brief review of murder in Australia, where the murder rate trend seemed unaffected by gun control.
