papatree84 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Article The Mint Press lists its bias on their about page as "Through the lens of social justice and human rights, we report on how these dynamics drive our foreign affairs and impact the world, and examine the effects they have on our democracy and freedoms as defined by the constitution." Now I almost always cringe when I hear the words social justice, however the article makes some good arguments on the correlation between gun ownership and murder rates, notably that they don't correlate either way. They also point out that governments really only want to ban citizens from owning rifles because you need rifles to overthrow a government. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdiaz03 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I see a lot of non-arguments. Just opinions not backed by anything. poverty causes crime? $60 fully automatic mac-10 from Home depot? really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
percentient Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 They look at just homicide, and there is an argument to be made that gun prevalence causes some murders http://i.imgur.com/SrG6h6r.png(Miller, Hemenway, Azrael). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papatree84 Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 They link poverty and crime probably because most of the impoverished in America are blacks and blacks also commit most of the murders. Although they don't say this in the article. Plus correlation does not equal causation; just because blacks are impoverished doesn't mean they commit crime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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