@St_Rev @clipperride wait ppl are carrying guns to protect against black & griz bears? Nobody does that here.
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@St_Rev@clipperride Up N they shoot polar bears if they get aggro but that's a different beast altogether. Here - bear spray/avoidance.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@simplic10@St_Rev Just looked up figures of gun murder per 100,000 people. USA 3.2. Canada (also lots of guns) 0.5 England (very few)0.12 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@clipperride@simplic10 UK has like 6x the robbery rate of US IIRC.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@simplic10 I can believe that. On other hand 25% of the world wide prison population are in American prisons.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@clipperride@simplic10 Correct statistic is overall homicides. US homicide rate is 4.8 per 100,000 in 2010, UK is 1 per 100,000.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@simplic10 I still puzzle over why Canada, with wide gun ownership, has less gun crime per capita than USA? Less gang activity?4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@clipperride@simplic10 Note also that *within* US, violent crime and gun control laws appear to be uncorrelated or negatively correlated.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@clipperride yes, you can check Brady score correl w gun crime rate - pure noise. BUT I always wanted to look across time on...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@clipperride ...possib that sequence is (1) high gun crime --> (2) laws --> (3) reversion to ~mean. Not enough time/interest tho.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@simplic10 @clipperride That's a good question.
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