Wednesday, November 28, 2012

I Wonder if Any of Them Used That Shoulder Thing That Goes Up?

According to the FBI, murder victims are more likely to be killed by assailants using parts of their bodies than firearms. [More
Why, there oughtta be a law...

[Via Michael G]

2 comments:

Ed said...

For the purposes of this article, "firearms" are rifles and shotguns, but not handguns, which is nonsensical. According to the FBI, for 2011, 68% of 12,664 murders by weapons were committed by firearms of all types (handguns, rifles and shotguns), leaving 32% from other causes, including "pushing". I guess that the "Coalition to Stop Pushing Violence" just does not have the same urgency for effectively raising funds to support he staffers' lifestyles.

Murder Victims by Weapon data:

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

Murder Victims by Weapons State Breakdown (note that state population data needed for meaningful evaluation is omitted):

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-20

The overall violent crime data:

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/violent-crime/violent-crime

Chas said...

So now, the leftist freedom-haters who want to disarm us, so that they can rape us, are going to shut up? I didn't think so.