(05-29-2022, 08:29 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Sure you are, lol. Here's a little one to warm up:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversa...ime-183933

I'll be happy to give you more later when I get off Rise of the Resistance.

I should add, even though that article doesn't say what you thought it did, it does have good info.  The horizontal bar graph in particular is enlightening.
We all wish we had the rate of gun violence like the countries at the bottom of the chart, including Finland and Norway.
And we are glad our rate is much lower than those at the top of the list, like Jamaica and Honduras and even Mexico.
Both the nations with much less gun violence and those with much more have stricter gun laws than we do.
If we make our laws stricter, that will reduce gun violence but only marginally. 
If you look only at laws and budgets, the strongest correlation for gun violence is not gun laws but welfare and social safety net spending. But you can't just ramp up that type of spending in a country like this and expect that result.  It would take decades to have any good effect and in the short term it would create inflation and other unacceptable economic effects.
The main problem not laws of spending but history.  Our history is more like that of Brazil or the Dominican Republic than it is like that of Finland or Norway.  
Slavery and segregation and racism all undermine trust in government, and the willingness of the people to abide by the laws, and the effects are generational.

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