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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (891208)	10/2/2015 6:40:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577829

Something doesn't need a reason to be irrelevant. It needs a reason to be relevant, and without that reason it isn't. If you think one of the items I called irrelevant is highly relevant show the relevance. As for school shootings, the US isn't the only country with them and they aren't routine here, or anywhere except maybe in some war torn countries. Now I have a some questions for you. Why is gun violence in Europe negatively correlated with the prevalence of guns? Why is gun violence across the world pretty much uncorrelated with the prevalence of guns? Why has violent crime, violent crime with guns, and murders (with or without a gun) gone down in the US as guns have become more common? And compared to some of the lower violent crime European countries that are often compared to the US by would be gun grabbers, if its all about guns why is the US's knife homicide rate higher, as well as homicide rate with other non-gun weapons or with no weapon at all?