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hfojvt

(37,573 posts) Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:06 PM Dec 2012

so the TV news is talking about multiple gunshot victims

What happened, a mass shooting?

No, just a normal weekend for Kansas City

and St. Louis
and Baltimore
and Washington DC
and Detroit
and NYC
and Boston
and Philadelphia
and Los Angeles
and Chicago
and Atlanta
and Houston
and so on

Total victims on an average day - about 40, and those are just the fatalities.

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so the TV news is talking about multiple gunshot victims (Original Post) hfojvt Dec 2012 OP

Running the gamut of gun control laws... dkf Dec 2012 #1

it might hfojvt Dec 2012 #2

The poverty rate is probably more of a correlation. dkf Dec 2012 #3

dkf

(37,305 posts)

1. Running the gamut of gun control laws...

Reply to hfojvt (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:11 PM

Dec 2012

Strict or not it doesn't seem to do much.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)

2. it might

Reply to dkf (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:31 PM

Dec 2012

different cities have different murder rates.

From 46.4 in Washington DC and 42.6 in Detroit and 38.1 in St. Louis down to 8.3 in Seattle and 5.6 in Boston

This is from 1999, and I am not sure what the history is of gun control laws in those various cities.

Although looking at DC and Detroit it seems like the homicide rate is proportional to the poverty rate.

dkf

(37,305 posts)

3. The poverty rate is probably more of a correlation.

Reply to hfojvt (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 01:34 PM

Dec 2012

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