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Originally Posted by Fincuan
Old one, and misleading. You can think of that as VERY creative or just plain wrong use of statistics.
See for example here for an conversation on the subject: http://answers.google.com/answers/th...id/594867.html
This one pretty much sums it up:
Note that the figure that above guy used for Washington DC is all murders, not just those committed with a firearm. Without looking at the statistics I bet suicides are a big majority of firearm related deaths in US and Washington D.C anyway, and even if one included them it would be hard to get the math as wrong as in the original version of this "myth". |
Yeah, there's no doubt that the Washington stats were skewed. I'm wondering if someone picked up on an exceptionally bad month and went to town...