Incendiary Image of the Day: More Guns ≠ More Firearms-Related Homicides Edition

By Robert Farago

The antis want you to believe that the South’s “weak gun laws” are responsible for higher levels of “gun violence.” Well, not the South. “Some southern states” have “more gun-related violence than others.” See how that works? The antis cherry pick – including some states, excluding other – to promote their agenda. (FBI crime stats put gun-control crazed California at the top of the firearms-related homicide table.) They stat with a premise – “The weaker the gun laws and the higher the rate of gun ownership in a given state, the more deaths from gun violence that state will see” and shoehorn stats to fit. We’ve said it before . . .

Correlation does not equal causation. But you can use correlation to rule out causation, to disprove a relationship. Check out the chart above: gun ownership up, firearms-related homicides down. Way up. Way down.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that rising firearms ownership caused the drop in firearms-related homicides. There are a lot of potential reasons for the drop: economics, culture, concealed carry liberalization, soaring gun ownership, incarceration rates, improved emergency care, the arrival of killer bees into the U.S, drug addicts …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns