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Posted: Jul 16, 2015

My S&W .357 Revolver on the table right next to my front door. I left 6 cartridges beside it, then left it alone and went about my business.

While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front of my house.

After about an hour, I checked on the gun. It was still sitting there, right where I had left it. It hadn't moved itself outside. It certainly hadn't killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had presented to do so.

In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself. Well you can imagine my surprise, with all the hype by the left and the media about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people.

Either the media is wrong or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world.

The United States is 3rd in Murders throughout the World.

But if you take out just 4 cities: Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC & New Orleans, the United States is 4th from the bottom, in the entire world, for Murders.

These 4 Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the U.S. ALL 4 of these cities are controlled by Democrats. It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data right?

Well, I'm off to check on my spoon. I hear they're making people fat.

Author Unknown

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Myth Debunk - see link

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Is the US really 3rd in Murders?

This infographic is posted on Facebook and other social media quite often. Are the numbers put on this image true? There are a few problems with these numbers on this graphic. The first problem is it doesn’t make any specifications, so I’m just going to run the numbers as whole numbers, for the all countries in the world.

So lets look at the first number, stating that the US is 3rd in the world in murders. The US is actually 8th in the world in murders, at 14,827 in 2012. Ahead of it are:
Brazil: 50,108
India: 43,355
Nigeria: 33,817
Mexico: 26,037
Democratic Republic of the Congo: 18,586
South Africa: 16,259
Venezuela: 16,072

The 2nd part states that removing those 4 cities, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, and New Orleans, would move the US from 3rd from top to 4th from last. Let’s look at the murder numbers from those 4 cities.

Chicago: 532
Detroit: 411
New Orleans: 193
Washington DC: 88
Total: 1224, or 8.2% of the total murders for the US in 2012.

Now if you subtract that number from the total, it leaves you with 13,574 murders, and for the 2nd number, the 4th from bottom number, that is even further off than the first number. There are currently 195 nations in the world, after taking out those 4 cities from the total, the following cities are now above the US in total murders:

Columbia: 14,670
Pakistan: 13,846
US: 13,574
Russia: 13,120

So America moves down 2 places to number 10 in the world. 4th from the bottom of 195 would be 191, leaving this infographic 181 places off of it’s mark.

Another thing to note is that the 4 cities seem to be cherry picked since they aren’t all even the top 4 highest murder cities in the country. Those honors go to:

Chicago: 532
New York: 419
Detroit: 411
Philadelphia: 334

Now these cities are listed before we even get to New Orleans on the list:

Los Angeles: 299
Baltimore: 219
Houston: 217

Washington DC isn’t even on the list of the top 15 murder cities.


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So remove those 4 cities and the U.S. moves down a whole 2, count them 2 places, which is only 181 off from the claim in the myth. Ooops! Missed it by that much. LOL.

"Author Unknown" needs to check on that spoon because whatever they're being spoon fed is totally incorrect and may not be making them fat but is decidedly making them ignorant.

Now, now, you know real Math isn't part of - this equation!

[ In Reply To ..]
I have spared this page from posting every "accidental" death where a mischievous gun has killed a toddler, brother/sister of tween, angry/confused teenager, parent, loved one, or just a really vengeance gun while being cleaned has killed its owner.

Myth Debunk article from 2014! Where's the REAL numbers? - They are drastically different and higher

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http://www.numbeo.com/crime/region_rankings.jsp?title=2015-mid®ion=021

Why would you want to compare crime rates with murder rates? - sm

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Comparing numbers of murders here, not numbers of crimes.

Despite what people are being spoon-fed in right-wing propaganda media, crime rates are DOWN and have been falling for decades.

This poster said: "Where's the REAL numbers? They are drastically different and higher."

No, incorrect. Murder rates are actually lower in most major cities. (see link)

:)

Truth

Great post! - sm

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I see the actual point of the post was once again missed (or ignored on purpose) by those on the left. It's a great post for those of us who still believe in The Constitution of the United States of America!

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