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gun homicides in mexico
- Thread starter pawcatch
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bestdefense357
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How can they have more gun deaths than the U. S.? Guns are banned in Mexico, except for the police, military, and drug cartels. Robert
pawcatch,
Lies, damn lies, and statistics sums it up. One huge problem with using data from foreign sources is the methods used to collate the date. For example: Columbine had, according to US methods, 15 shooting deaths, since 15 kids got shot and died. In other countries (Until recently, 1999 I believe)England would have listed only 2 gun related homocides, since there were only 2 shooters. I tried to compare the stats from foreign countries, that had strong gun control laws, to the US a year ago with little success. The discliamers you have to add to your argument as to how the data is collected, and exacty what constitutes it eg: is suicide included?, makes it hard to use in a verbal agrument, and too wordy for a side by side compare. What I found to be more effective is the use of State Dept travel advisories. The SD usulayy lists any and all advisories, and give reasons, for any area they suspect to be trouble. www.travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
Good solid arguments can be formed with the conficting data found here. If strong gun control works, why is travel in Mexico so dangerous and armed crime so prevalent?
Lies, damn lies, and statistics sums it up. One huge problem with using data from foreign sources is the methods used to collate the date. For example: Columbine had, according to US methods, 15 shooting deaths, since 15 kids got shot and died. In other countries (Until recently, 1999 I believe)England would have listed only 2 gun related homocides, since there were only 2 shooters. I tried to compare the stats from foreign countries, that had strong gun control laws, to the US a year ago with little success. The discliamers you have to add to your argument as to how the data is collected, and exacty what constitutes it eg: is suicide included?, makes it hard to use in a verbal agrument, and too wordy for a side by side compare. What I found to be more effective is the use of State Dept travel advisories. The SD usulayy lists any and all advisories, and give reasons, for any area they suspect to be trouble. www.travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html
Good solid arguments can be formed with the conficting data found here. If strong gun control works, why is travel in Mexico so dangerous and armed crime so prevalent?
Talking stats. here is one. Child abuse is
the number one killer of children under 5,
3 die each day. 900,000 abused in 1998 thats
known cases, and the liberals talk about
guns, is it really safety they are after.?
Child safety.? If so they would turn there
attention to the problem of abuse.
the number one killer of children under 5,
3 die each day. 900,000 abused in 1998 thats
known cases, and the liberals talk about
guns, is it really safety they are after.?
Child safety.? If so they would turn there
attention to the problem of abuse.
Bullet - data from the CDC says that motor vehicles are by far the largest cause of death in children.
see: http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html
Lots of data there.
see: http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html
Lots of data there.