Give up my guns?

1. More poverty in a town means more crime. Go to Zillow and look at crime rate and income level and you can see the correlation for yourself. As incomes rise, crime reduces. No other demographics matter.

2. The most effective way to reduce crime in any neighborhood (outside of an official government effort) is a neighborhood watch program that has signs saying a neighborhood watch exists.
 
Option_Attack said:
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A gun in a home increases the likelihood of someone in that home being shot/dying from a gun shot wound compared to people without a gun in the home.
 
piezoe said:
But while smaller, similar in demographic, would you say? And there are many many similar examples. As the population gets larger we could expect the demographic base to widen somewhat.

I won't convince you. And that does not matter. But Having a loaded 45 on your coffee table is not the reason Cary has a low crime rate. I want to give you a reasonable way out of this impasse. You said, I am paraphrasing, peers with much higher crime rates. I know you did not mean that. You meant peers with higher, but similar, low crime rate. But unfortunately this statistic, by itself, can not be support for "the loaded 45 on the coffee table" hypothesis.
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So where is your proof that not having firearms in the households reduces the crime rate statistically?
 
UsualName said:
Where would that be?
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Were people polite in the Wild West as long as they weren't drunk? Polite perhaps, with a thriving undertaking business. Judging from Hollywood's perspective, undertakers did well when everyone was toting.
 
piezoe said:
Were people polite in the Wild West as long as they weren't drunk? Polite perhaps, with a thriving undertaking business. Judging from Hollywood's perspective, undertakers did well when everyone was toting.
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It wasn’t called the Polite West, now was it?
 
gwb-trading said:
So where is your proof that not having firearms in the households reduces the crime rate statistically?
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that would be the converse, wouldn't it? How would you prove that, assuming you wanted to? I think you may find some studies that at least infer having firearms at home does not make you statistically safer. Perhaps this one: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/

I know the problem. It's Harvard! A bastion of liberal, i.e., socialist, thinking. Let's pretend i didn't mention it. I'll look for a similar study from the Heritage Foundation.* :D

*Maybe the Cato Foundation. I love Cato's very smoky Scotch, so I'm bound to like the "Foundation," whatever that is There is an incident from my youth that I will never forget. The taste of warm Cato's scotch while drifting in Key West harbor after having survived the sail back from the Dry Tortugas in a tiny boat in the lee of Hurricane Juan. Being alive never felt so good since!
 
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