Tag: statistics

  • Doctor Talks About Gunshot Wounds

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    An interesting talk that is definitely worth watching: Every time I see one of these types of scientific videos where they talk about wounds, I realize how bad I never want to be shot. The rifle v.s. handgun pictures he shows are especially frightening. LOL at the zombie target joke at around 13:12. Summary: Handguns…

  • Gallup Poll Of U.S. Gun Laws – Small Sample Size?

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    A record-low 26% of Americans favor a legal ban on the possession of handguns in the United States other than by police and other authorized people. The results are based on Gallup’s annual Crime poll, conducted Oct. 6-9. This year’s poll finds support for a variety of gun-control measures at historical lows, including the ban…

  • Crunching Numbers – Death And Firearms

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    Or as I’d prefer to call it; Firearms Save Lives! :P (yea yea I know.. that’s not necessarily true): The hypothesis of “more guns = more deaths” is demonstrably false over the past 28 years of documented American history. The number of firearms in civilian circulation have been steadily increasing over that time period, and the number of…

  • 2009 FBI Murder Statistics By State And Type Of Weapon Used

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    Summary: Murders total – 13636 Murders with handguns – 6452 (47.32%) Murders with rifles – 348 (2.55%) Murders with shotguns – 418 (3.07%) Murders with unknown firearms – 1928 (14.14%) Murder with knives or cutting instruments – 1825 (13.38%) Murders with other weapons – 1864 (13.67%) Murders with hands, fists, feet etc.. – 801 (5.87%)…

  • More Guns Equals Less Crime?

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    Linoge investigates the common assertion – HERE I still don’t know what to think.  There are so many external variables involved when you’re dealing with guns and people, that I don’t like to be like the anti gun nuts (and the NRA on at least on occasion) and make statements about the correlation between guns…

  • No Rural-City Gap In Youth Gun Deaths … Or Is There?

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    According to the Journal Pediatrics, children in the most rural areas of the United States are as likely to die by gunfire as those in the biggest cities, a new analysis of nearly 24,000 deaths finds. The researchers analyzed data on nearly 24,000 gun-related deaths among those 19 and younger from 1999 through 2006. That…