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Subject: Re: Lack Of Gun Control Helps Manage Red State Trumper Populations
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:41:02 -0500
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"Phillip Archer" <X@Y.com> wrote in message 
news:vcqnju$2icod$5@dont-email.me...
> "Of the 300 largest U.S. cities, cities
> in states with the strongest gun laws
> experienced 19.4 percent fewer total
> gun homicides in 2023 than in 2022,
> while cities in states with the weakest
> gun laws saw only 5.1 percent fewer total
> gun homicides."
>
> https://www.americanprogress.org/article/in-2023-gun-violence-trended-down-
> across-the-country/

Yea, but given those cities started with a much higher gun homicide rate.. 
they are still higher than the cities with a much lower rate that dropped 
slightly lower.

What Phillip Archer posted could also by titled how to lie with numbers.

if one areas starts with 300 gun homicides while the other has only 100..

Dropping the 300 by 19.4% still means a lot more murders than the 100 
dropped by 5.1%

Specifically. 241 gun homicides vs 95

IOW the cites with the strongest gun control could still have 253% more gun 
homicides than the cities without that gun control.

If the numbers were actually lower in the cities with the strict gun 
control.. you can be sure they would be posting the actual numbers.. instead 
of playing games by looking at percentages.