WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?
It's a pretty good question to ask whenever somebody does something thoughtless, outrageous, or just plain stupid.
Ed covers it pretty well in this post.
Given this information on gun violence, and a H/T to Rachel Maddow for showing it on her show last night, I have a question.
This graph shows gun deaths per 100,000 population as a function of the percentage of gun ownership, for the five highest and lowest ranking states. Pretty striking. I'll post the full data set later, if I can find it. No time right now.
So ---here is my question to gun nuts:
WHAT THE HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?
Update:
Here is a chart showing this same relationship for all 50 states, 2006 data. Death rate is per 100,000 population; ownership is percentage of the population owning guns. Slope is 0.18 death per 1000,000 for every percentage increase of gun ownership.
Update Here.
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2 comments:
Your graph seems to follow common sense. If you have more guns, more people will get killed by them.
I would prefer to say 'what the heck' :) And how did this country become so factious; can't remember it being that way in my youth. People need to chill out and learn the fine art of compromise.
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