09.20.13
Gun Crazy in WhiteManistan: proven bad by science
From the American Journal of Medicine:
“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 … Regardless of exact cause and effect, however, the current study debunks the widely-quoted hypothesis that guns make a nation safer.”
Accompanying data shows US the obvious world leader.
Chuck said,
September 23, 2013 at 8:51 pm
The US death rate from guns being higher than that of South Africa didn’t surprise me. What did surprise me is the chart mapping crime rate and mental illness (Page 876, Figure D).
Is that really saying that the US has a far greater rate of mental illness (by a long shot) of any of the 27 countries surveyed. Am I to conclude that the US is more of an insane asylum than any of them?
Whoa.
George Smith said,
September 24, 2013 at 12:53 pm
The raw numbers are closer together, the plots expand that data so the US is, as in everything else, the outlier. Still, in the raw numbers it leads, followed by Finland.
Proven by science, lots of crazy people and lots of guns, not a good mix. Who knew?
From “The National Anthem:” Plus, we got lots of crazy people…