03-26-2018, 03:53 AM
Old Croc,
Thanks for taking the time to detail and provide sources for your post. I appreciate all of the time you put into providing the info for those of us who asked if you would.
I did reply to several of the items on your list earlier, but I'd like to include my link this time as well. You said:
10. “After 1997, both Australia and New Zealand experienced similar drops in mass murders, even though New Zealand had NOT altered its gun control laws.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/2...tions.html
I replied:
The death rate from guns in NZ has varied from 3 to 15 per year. There is no trend one way or another. It goes up and down between 3 and 15 each year, too small a number to statistically indicate anything.
Here's the link (from a pro gun blog in NZ):
https://kiwigunblog.wordpress.com/2017/0...-homicide/
With a death rate between only 3 and 15 people for the last 20 years, a rate that varies up and down with no consistent trend, in a population of 4.7 million, it would not be possible to draw any comparison of a NZ mass murder rate with Australia, as the writer in your link suggests.
New Zealand is a good example however, for how a country can have guns and keep the risk low. They must be doing something right.
If you want to combine the dual pleasures of insanity and social acceptance, religion is your only choice. - Last Aphorisms
Thanks for taking the time to detail and provide sources for your post. I appreciate all of the time you put into providing the info for those of us who asked if you would.
I did reply to several of the items on your list earlier, but I'd like to include my link this time as well. You said:
10. “After 1997, both Australia and New Zealand experienced similar drops in mass murders, even though New Zealand had NOT altered its gun control laws.”
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/2...tions.html
I replied:
The death rate from guns in NZ has varied from 3 to 15 per year. There is no trend one way or another. It goes up and down between 3 and 15 each year, too small a number to statistically indicate anything.
Here's the link (from a pro gun blog in NZ):
https://kiwigunblog.wordpress.com/2017/0...-homicide/
With a death rate between only 3 and 15 people for the last 20 years, a rate that varies up and down with no consistent trend, in a population of 4.7 million, it would not be possible to draw any comparison of a NZ mass murder rate with Australia, as the writer in your link suggests.
New Zealand is a good example however, for how a country can have guns and keep the risk low. They must be doing something right.
If you want to combine the dual pleasures of insanity and social acceptance, religion is your only choice. - Last Aphorisms
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves