Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders
Posted by freedomforall 6 years ago to Culture
According to a 2013 PEW Research Center survey, the household gun ownership rate in rural areas was 2.11 times greater than in urban areas (“Why Own a Gun? Protection is Now Top Reason,” PEW Research Center, March 12, 2013). Suburban households are 28.6% more likely to own guns than urban households. Despite lower gun ownership, urban areas experience much higher murder rates. One should not put much weight on this purely “cross-sectional” evidence over one point in time and many factors determine murder rates, but it is still interesting to note that so much of the country has both very high gun ownership rates and zero murders.
This study shows how murders in the United States are heavily concentrated in very small areas. Few appreciate how much of the US has no murders each year. Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a very small set of urban areas, and any solution must reduce those murders.
This study shows how murders in the United States are heavily concentrated in very small areas. Few appreciate how much of the US has no murders each year. Murder isn’t a nationwide problem. It’s a problem in a very small set of urban areas, and any solution must reduce those murders.
ROFLMAO
I'd like to see an overlay map of the murder rates and the voting by county in the 2016 election. Let's put the facts out there so some young (or older open) minds have the opportunity to see them and to question the propaganda.
It would be interesting to see a graph of leftist take overs versus murders in that state.
We should try an experiment, change the law in Chicago and allow its citizens their "constitutional rights", to carry, and keep the strict controls on Washington D.C., in fact just put an entire ban on guns in DC. Then we might be able to prove the theories one way or the other.
Jewish Man:"I hear that your son has become a priest."
Catholic Man: Ye, we are very proud.
J.M. Can he be promoted to a higher degree?
C.M. Yes, he can become a Monsignor.
J.M. And after that?
C.M. Well he could become a bishop and even go as high as becoming the Pope.
J.M. And where can he go after that?
C.M. (annoyed) Do you expect him to become God?
J.M. Why not? One of our boys made it.
You can't make this up.
Statistics do not give the information needed. Why resort to violence? Not that control needs to be the first answer but how to intercede seems the better question.
So that should be easily accomplished and then conservatives will be free to own whatever firearms they want and will be better prepared to protect the whining liberal snowflakes if they feel like it.
The left is all about "control" of anything they disagree with. Doesn't matter that they are WRONG, WRONG, and REALLY WRONG.
How do we "control" liberalism/leftism? People on the right just want to be left alone. And, the politically active people on the right are always on defense. Until Trump. People may hate his manner and "bull in the china shop" ways. However, he is showing the way. "Manners" do NOT belong in politics when the stakes are SO HIGH. I hope there are many more Trump's, of many varying degrees, thinking about becoming politically active! Or, we'll just fall back on the left's sword when DJT's 8 years are done.
Take away the power to tax production and the power to create debt by inflating the currency.
Defund government. Today we have no power to do so because the federal police would descend on anyone attempting it.
We do have the power to wreck the financial fortunes of the companies that support big government by going on a consumer strike, which also cuts the funding of government.
And "Chappaquiddick" is on my list of movies to go see. I don't believe Teddy Kennedy was innocent either, but he certainly was lauded by the left.
They've certainly dodged prosecution for this long it would take measures from the highest people in the land to change that. My hope is that the upcoming Sessions prosecutions of McCabe, Mueller, et al for the Russian Dossier, Uranium One deal, and Clinton server botched prosecution changes this dynamic substantially.
I'd like to see an overlay map created of the murder rates and the voting by county in the 2016 election. If someone had the data it could probably be done in Excel.
Another effect not discussed in young unmarried men tend to commit most murder. Urban areas lend themselves more to unmarried people. So it's possible this is responsible for the difference in murder rate.
I agree something is there, but this article confuses it by not adjusting for population. Those 2% of counties have most of the people, so they will tend to have more of every human activity. It would have been clearer if they provided more per-100k data.
We could throw in lots of unrelated stats and there is little scientific evidence that there is any statistical correlation between the demographics and crime rates. If you want to discuss other stats then start another thread.
Here are some places to start ;^)
Unrelated statistics per the 2010 FBI studies,
53% of murder perpetrators were black (13% of population)
77% of murder victims were male (49% of population)
50% of murder victims were black (13% of population)
47% of murder victims were white (74% of population)
14% of murder victims were other races (2.5% of population)
53% of murder victims were killed by someone they knew
25% of murder victims were killed by a relative
Even more interesting is this article from the NYT:
Growing up in some places — especially liberal ones — makes people less likely to marry, new data shows.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
I completely agree, but it can be compensated for by combining rural counties into larger rural areas.
"Growing up in some places — especially liberal ones — makes people less likely to marry, new data shows."
This was interesting. I saw the little red (low marriage rate) for liberal Dane County where I live. It made me think how my wife and I got married at age 31, so we reduced our marriage rate. Maybe urbanites get more education on ave and therefore get married later in life. It's also interesting that the effect is not as strong in Seattle.
I have a notion that men marrying young makes them less violent. I'm not sure if the facts agree with my notion or which way the causal vectors go-- maybe non-violent men are more likely to want to get married and find a partner who wants to marry them.
It obviously not true for all individuals, but the trend you describe has been true since antiquity. The very first story known to humankind , Gilgamesh, has this as part of its plot: Get the guy in a relationship and he'll settle down.
On another kind of map it would be a blue splotch on a red state~that blue splotch voting for The Evil Hag and other lib politicians who want to take my guns.
Why? So I can't defend myself from all the blue splotch welfare-bred gang-bangers?
Good golly me so solly! Me dino don't~nyah! nyah! nyah!~think so.
I also notice that the counties containing Montgomery (state capital) and Mobile are a shade slightly less red with the county containing Huntsville trying to catch up.
I'd like to see an overlay map created of the murder rates and the voting by county in the 2016 election. If someone had the data it could probably be done in Excel.
I would like that too. President Trump ran on claims that violent crime is out of control and the country is falling apart. Secretary Clinton's supporters, at least in my little corner of the world, feel like things were going well and life is good. If that continues, meaning it's not just incumbent bias, it would be a weird and interesting thing if crime were actually lower in Republican areas.
I look forward to watching her face a firing squad on tv.
You and other supporters of socialism are welcome to tax yourselves to support socialism, but keep your bleeding hearts and hands out of my pockets. I'm not going to be dinner for Hitlery and her band of wolves.
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In all seriousness, though, in case it isn't obvious: I ignore jokes about violence and the rest of this nonsense about socialism and President Obama because none of it deservices a response.