twinklesweep
09-18-2013, 08:31 AM
I recently came across a simple, quickly prepared study by Mark Reid whose goal was just to look at the relationship between gun deaths and gun ownership. It started with this premise (from the study):
"One statistic from an April 2012 New Yorker article caught my attention: The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed."
One can research any subject to death (no pun intended); I thought that this was a quick and easily understandable overview that can be found on this website. Note that the title I am giving his thread is the title of his brief study:
Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership ? Inductio Ex Machina ? Mark Reid (http://mark.reid.name/blog/gun-deaths-vs-gun-ownership.html)
The writer explained that he prepared this quickly, based on simple and easily obtainable references, and made these comments, among others:
"[M]y intention was not to do a definitive study but rather show how a readily accessible source (i.e., Wikipedia) can be used to quickly get an overview of a topic." I might add that he seemed to be disparaging about Wikipedia in general.
With reference to the plots he uses in his article, "I have not attempted to use these plots to draw any kind of conclusion about the relationship between gun ownership and gun deaths."
The link to the study appeared in an article in Business Insider by Walter Hickey:
America's Gun Problem In One Chart - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/shooting-gun-laws-2012-12)
"One statistic from an April 2012 New Yorker article caught my attention: The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed."
One can research any subject to death (no pun intended); I thought that this was a quick and easily understandable overview that can be found on this website. Note that the title I am giving his thread is the title of his brief study:
Gun Deaths vs. Gun Ownership ? Inductio Ex Machina ? Mark Reid (http://mark.reid.name/blog/gun-deaths-vs-gun-ownership.html)
The writer explained that he prepared this quickly, based on simple and easily obtainable references, and made these comments, among others:
"[M]y intention was not to do a definitive study but rather show how a readily accessible source (i.e., Wikipedia) can be used to quickly get an overview of a topic." I might add that he seemed to be disparaging about Wikipedia in general.
With reference to the plots he uses in his article, "I have not attempted to use these plots to draw any kind of conclusion about the relationship between gun ownership and gun deaths."
The link to the study appeared in an article in Business Insider by Walter Hickey:
America's Gun Problem In One Chart - Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/shooting-gun-laws-2012-12)