Re: Lack Of Gun Control Helps Manage Red State Trumper Populations

"Phillip Archer" <X@Y.com> wrote in message news:vcqnju$2icod$5@dont-email.me...

"Of the 300 largest U.S. cities, cities
in states with the strongest gun laws
experienced 19.4 percent fewer total
gun homicides in 2023 than in 2022,
while cities in states with the weakest
gun laws saw only 5.1 percent fewer total
gun homicides."
>
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/in-2023-gun-violence-trended-down-
across-the-country/

Yea, but given those cities started with a much higher gun homicide rate.. they are still higher than the cities with a much lower rate that dropped slightly lower.
What Phillip Archer posted could also by titled how to lie with numbers.
if one areas starts with 300 gun homicides while the other has only 100..
Dropping the 300 by 19.4% still means a lot more murders than the 100 dropped by 5.1%
Specifically. 241 gun homicides vs 95
IOW the cites with the strongest gun control could still have 253% more gun homicides than the cities without that gun control.
If the numbers were actually lower in the cities with the strict gun control.. you can be sure they would be posting the actual numbers.. instead of playing games by looking at percentages.