The Mystery of the Missing Crime Data

PJ Media ^ | 5/16/2013 | Howard Nemerov

[rktman]

Many corporate media outlets have been reporting on the new Department of Justice (DOJ) report titled “Firearm Violence, 1993-2011,” which reports that shooting homicides have declined dramatically during the last two decades.

Many outlets published an Associated Press report that drew attention away from the possibility that firearms ownership might reduce crime:

[rktman]

Nicely laid out with graphics included.

[Doogle]

"....look under Hilda's copies of the FBI files she stole"

[rktman]

You mean the ones they searched for for years until somebody said “Hey. What’s that stack of paper over there in the corner?”

[Doogle]

eyep, the ones that appeared of the coffee table

[rarestia]

TL;DR: Blacks are safer in RTC states. Whites are safer in high gun-control states.

[Paladin2]

Here's a PC problem:

[MrB]

Whites are safer in high gun-control states.

How does that work out? The first explanation that comes to mind is that there is more segregation in socialist states, thereby insulating whites from high crime demographics.

[rarestia]

It’s in the article. There’s not a true correlation, but it is statistically significant.

[driftless2]

What’s that loud noise? It’s the sound of liberal heads exploding. The liberal mantra for as long as I can remember (over fifty years) is that more guns in the hands of private citizens will mean more gun deaths. The facts show otherwise. Like every lib theory, the more guns equals more violence doesn’t stand up to the light of truth.

[rktman]

Truth? They don’t need no steenkin’ truth. Facts? We speet on your steenkin’ facts.

[driftless2]

I'll give you a little story about liberal hysteria concerning guns. A few years ago my wife and I stopped at some national monument in western Nebraska near Chimney Rock. As we were perusing the various historical artifacts and stories about the region, I started reading one exhibit concerning settlers and deaths.

The written article was basically a long screed about how dangerous it was for settlers to have guns. It could only have been written by some anti-gun, liberal nut. Of course, there was no mention of the positive uses of firearms by settlers like hunting or self-defense. I was ready to start yelling at the park service employee on duty, but I settled down and just left the building muttering to myself.