The tale of 4 cities with the toughest gun control laws
Posted on | September 30, 2013 | 5 Comments
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Debunking the “Four Cities” Murder Myth
Urban decay in Detroit from Imgur There is an urban myth floating around the Internet under some variation of the the title: The United States is ranked 3rd in Murders throughout the World. But, if you remove just 4 cities from the statistics : The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the world. But if you take out Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans, the United States is 4th from the bottom for murders. These 4 cities also have the toughest gun control laws in the United States. This tell you anything? PS: These cities are…
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September 30th, 2013 @ 8:57 am
Right on and look who is doing all the killing. Obama supporters!
September 30th, 2013 @ 10:53 am
Yowser: And I wouldn’t live in any of these (4) locations–EVER!!!
November 19th, 2014 @ 5:59 pm
Is the US is 3rd in the world in murders? No – more like 8th with 14,827 in 2012 (last year I could easily find all the numbers). Brazil had 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. Really? Look at the murder numbers from those 4 cities. Chicago 532 – Detroit 411 – New Orleans 193 – and Washington DC 88. That equals 1224, or 8.2% of the total murders for the US in 2012. Got that so far? 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. After taking out those 4 cities from the total, the following cities are now above the US in total murders: Columbia 14,670 and Pakistan with 13,846. That moves America down 2 places to number 10 in the world, nowhere near 4th from the bottom. And the FBI statistics do not say that all the murders were with guns!!!!!!! Anyway, cute story, but bullshit through and through.
June 20th, 2015 @ 9:25 am
David, your numbers are wrong. The death rate is much higher than you told according to the statistics I saw which would change the final number you came up with and change your whole point drastically.
January 11th, 2019 @ 9:06 pm
Kenneth Kam is a ponzi scheme cheating investors’ money. Kenneth Kam has cheated investors millions of dollars. MAS is sleeping