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Firearm Homicides Dropping: All The Latest Stats
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Firearm Homicide Rates Around The World: Comparing With USA
Here's an around the world tour of homicide rates by firearm, brought to you by our friends at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Rates are per 100,000…
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Firearm Homicides Dropping.: There Is No Need For New Gun Restrictions.
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FBI Homicide Statistics: What Are You Most Likely To Be Killed With?
It's the start of a long weekend and the time for a diversion. It's the fourth of July weekend and our lesson is: if you older than 50, beware strangers…
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The Michigan Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Is Wrong: “Guns” are not the leading cause of death in kids
Guns, which is to say the arms most commonly used, such as pistols, revolvers and rifles, very infrequently discharge accidentally. Rare incidents have been noted in which weapons fire when…
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Crime Issue Reveals the Real Source of Nation’s Political Divide — Guest Post by ST Karnick
Karnik is more in touch with "normies" than the author of this blog/Substack, and I thought it would be interesting to bring us that perspective. For instance, I look with…
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Quelling Violence In Terror States! The Return Of Dickman
Here is the opening sentence in the Abstract of a paper in the NEJM, as hilariously false as you are like to see these days: "Violence against women receives little…
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First Look At The FBI Crime Stats For 2022: I Don’t Even Have To Explain Per Capita
The FBI released its crime report for 2022, and I thought it instructive for us to examine homicide numbers. Homicides from 1985--2022. Now it is, or should be, obvious that…