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In reply to the discussion: Mexico says it will take legal action against US over El Paso shooting [View all]Igel
(35,320 posts)It's like saying the South Eugene Axemen (if they're still called that--the high school team) are the football champions for the 2nd year running, with the best record.
Assuming, of course, we completely ignore college football, professional football, and even football from the other 49 states and most of Oregon.
Between the grey text box with "high-income countries", "developed countries," and "high-income nations" and the text outside the box, with "we lead the world," is a rather big change in context. Of course, Mexico's worse, but it's also a low-income and apparently "undeveloped" (or "lesser developed" country, making it both more poor and more deadly. Yum.
Overall, the weird thing is that as the numbers of firearms per capita has increased in the last 15 years or so the per capital gun-related murder rate's declined. That's as part of an overall decline in crime, to be sure, but if the theory says "high firearm ownership rates lead to high per capita firearm death rates," the prediction has to be "higher firearm ownership rates lead to higher per capita firearm death rates." Unless we want to--as we must--complicate the theory and prediction by adding some additional contingencies. But then you complicate things past sound-bite status.