There is literally 0 correlation between how many people own firearms, and the homicide rate with firearms, or overall homicide rate as below graphs and correlation coefficients illustrate. This means that any policy that seeks to decrease or increase gun ownership within the population will have absolutely no affect on the murder rate within the same population. But this should be common sense. We should know that violent behavior, or any behavior for that matter is not dictated by inanimate objects. 16 oz cups do not make people fat, pencils do not miss spell words, and guns do not cause…
The source for the data are tables provided by wikipedia Murder Rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate Gun Ownership: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country First we look at all the countries. The correlation coefficient between gun ownership per person and murder rate per person is -0.19963579. A negative coefficient implies that as gun ownership increases, murder rate decreases. However, the correlation coefficient is to low to imply any correlation at all, so we conclude there is no correlation between how many guns is owned in a geographical area and the murder rate in that area. Another way to look at it Ok, but there is a lot of…
Now they tell us. 73% of all new jobs created in the past 5 months have been government jobs. As Adam Sandler would say, “Things that could of been brought to our attention yesterday!” So all the good employment news you have been hearing has been orchestrated at the expense of the tax payers. Who needs a super pac, or donations for that matter when you can hand out jobs using your political power. So no Mr. President the private sector is not fine. An no Paul Krugman, the economy is not stalling because of robotics automation, or lack of…
As the below graphic quickly illustrates there is no evidence that supports that higher taxes on the rich would return more revenue for the government and in turn reduce the deficits. In 1954 we had a top marginal tax of 91% and collected about $2,600 per person. In 1984 the top tax rate was 50% and we collected $5,700 per person. As if Obama and democrats care about revenue. As Obama displayed in…
