Pardon the typo,multitasking, Circulation of Guns.....
The change is not even of an order of magnitude. Statistically, little can be inferred.
As it happens, guns are only more efficient assuming that one has training and resolve, or is at close quarters. Most people, shooting from even a little distance, miss or make non- lethal wounds.
There are two separate queries: one, what in the world does other motives or unknown motives mean? For all I know, the unknown motives might all ultimately fall into the felony category, and the "other" might be is a mystery. The second has to do with separate figures that do not add up properly, requiring explanation for a missing 40%. You did not answer the problems at all.
The correlation is so weak as to make handgun ownership an incidental factor in homicide rates. Of course there would tend to be more handgun murders if there are more handguns, and more guns murders if there are more guns. But there is no clear correlation between even those rates, much less between guns ownership and overall homicide rates, which means that, according the tables used, the causality factor of handgun/gun ownership is trivial......... |
