Posted: Mar 17, 2018 12:37 am
The_Piper wrote:Warren Dew wrote:It's the vertical axis that is annual homicides per 100,000 population. I have no clue what the horizontal axis is so I'm ignoring it.
The high murder rate in Puerto Rico must be because it's so much easier to transport guns over oceans than by road, same as Chicago, right?
No, but I'm guessing poverty has something to do with it. Also warmer places in general have higher murder rates.
It's yet another sign that the people of Puerto Rico get the shaft so hard. They can't even vote for Dotard presidents. They should be a state, or independent.
The x axis is GDP per capita and is used as an indicator of being a developed country along with a stable democracy. It's a response to this -
- by gun control advocates, Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz, who only used gun deaths and "rich Western" countries for comparison to the US.
If it was color coded for gun restrictions and gun ownership it would be highly informative and very easy to see that gun laws, restrictions, and level of availability have little if any influence on murder rates.
Case in point: Puerto Rico has among the strictest permit processes and enforcement in the US, one of the highest murder rates, the highest murder rate by gun, and their gun ownership rate is comparable to California, Oregon, Washington state, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Puerto Rico has also had the worst economy with a poverty rate of 50% and an unemployment rate traditionally 3 times that of the US average.