{"id":6061,"date":"2013-12-13T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2013-12-11T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T02:06:23","slug":"un-data-shows-more-guns-less-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6061","title":{"rendered":"UN Data Shows More Guns, Less Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMore guns, more violence\u201d, so goes the mantra that, apparently, many liberal politicians and their voters keep chanting. In one way, it sort of makes sense, if you think about it without considering anything else other than the number of guns.<\/p>\n

However, there were some maps made by the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime that tend to set this mantra on its ear. Remember, now; this is data from the UN, not some conservative think tank.<\/p>\n

The map shows that where gun ownership is higher<\/a>, the number of homicides is, generally speaking, lower. In most cases, where the country is orange or red on the gun ownership map \u2013 the high end of the scale \u2013 they\u2019re green on the homicides map, meaning the low end. Places like the US, which no one would deny is awash in guns, to those places in Europe where you can still get them, more guns mean fewer homicides. And all these values are population based; per capita.<\/p>\n

And to just reinforce the point, when the country is green on the gun map \u2013 where it\u2019s difficult to get guns \u2013 you\u2019re extremely likely to see red on the homicide map; one might say figuratively and<\/i> literally. Fewer guns in Central and South America, Africa and Russia don\u2019t translate into rainbows and unicorns, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to stop chanting and take an honest look at the facts. The unicorns might just be grazing in another field entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMore guns, more violence\u201d, so goes the mantra that, apparently, many liberal politicians and their voters keep chanting. In one way, it sort of makes sense, if you think about it without considering anything else other than the number of guns. However, there were some maps made by the United Nations office on Drugs and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,973,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-guns","category-united-nations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t