Mass Homicide Not on Rise, Victims are Down The latest UN Global Study on Homicide (2014) reports that the number of victims in mass murder cases are down, while the number of such cases are flat in the United States. Gun violence data for 2015 shows there were 45 mass murders committed with guns. Image credit: UNODC It should be noted, just for […]

America Not the Only ‘Developed’ Nation with Mass Shooting Problem Below is a chart of mass shooting statistics, when corrected for population. It shows that the U.S. has comparable frequency to other nations when accounting for its large population size (0.72 fatalities per 1,000,000 population). [Archived data based on OECD and other statistics can be found here.]

U.S. Firearms Ownership Dwarfs Other Nations The United States has by far the highest gun ownership rate at a whopping 112 guns per 100 civilians. The U.S. has 12 times the guns of Honduras, but 1/22nd the firearms-related homicide.

Other “Developed” Nations Have Issues with Homicide Rates America is not as great an outlier compared to other nations having “high” development or better according to the UN’s Human Development Indicator (HDI), which rates countries by levels of economic development and quality-of-life. The FiveThirtyEight blog mapped the U.S. and selected other nations on a scatterplot of homicides per 100,000 vs. HDI (the

America Has High Homicide Rate versus Other “Developed” Nations The U.S. homicide rate is pretty high when compared to other “developed” countries, based on data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This chart shows a homicide rate of 5 per 100,000 (this figure has dropped in more recent years to approximately 3.6 per 100,000).

Find the United States in This Chart This chart is a proportional representation of various nations’ deaths from gun violence. It includes France, Mexico, Finland, and other developed nations (more on this later). America’s firearms-related death rate is 10.64 per 100,000 (statistics via GunPolicy.org). Image credit: Wikimedia Commons  

No Strong Connection Between Gun Homicides and Firearms Ownership The U.S. is truly an oddball: It has by far the most guns at 1.12 per civilian, but its intentional homicide rate averages 4 per 100,000. There is no significant correlation between guns per person and firearms homicide rate when looking at the biggest picture. Image credit: PSMag.com  

Firearms Ownership Increasing While Gun Homicides Plummeting Gun homicides are down 49% since 1993, according to Bureau of Justice statistics data. Even if there is no causation between more guns and less violence, there sure is a whole lot of correlation going on. Image credit: AEI  

Get out of poverty by getting a job and getting to work!  From the Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis:  The Census Bureau reports poverty rates by work experience for people ages 18 to 64.  In 2014, the overall poverty rate for people ages 18 to 64 was 14%.  The poverty rates by work

“It should be noted that it wasn’t war, oppression or disaster that forced the Son of God to be born in a barn. No, it was government regulation that forced Mary and Joseph to travel to Bethlehem at the worst possible time.”  

Wow!  Incoming White House counselor Kellyanne Conway provided an interesting answer on Thursday when asked if she would have trouble fulfilling the duties of her new job while being a mother of four. “I would say that I don’t play golf and I don’t have a mistress, so I have a lot of time that

“Greece remains terribly fragile economically and politically, and it remains a tripwire for deeper European and global economic and political turmoil. If it does not cease its unsustainable socialist ways, it will implode and set off a string of very unpleasant consequences internationally. And the Greeks will suffer enormously for their lack of economic self-control

Clinton’s fallout is interestingly causing an internal revolution among Hillary’s big donors. At her New York bash to “thank” her big donors of $1 million or more, she took no blame and pointed the finger at Comey and Putin. Her spin did not work and she has lost a lot of credibility according to confidential

California is dumping a trillion gallons of fresh Water in the ocean. Only liberals would declare a water shortage disaster after spending years dumping good, fresh water into the ocean to protect a non-endangered bait fish. For years now, the southern 1/3 of the beautiful San Joaquin Valley’s farmland has been turned into a “man-made”

Via Robert Gehl:  Barack Obama has just made it much harder for Donald Trump to try to keep America safe. For nine years, a version of Trump’s most important proposals was U.S. government policy: requiring certain people in the United States from Muslim-majority countries to register with the U.S. Obama suspended the program in 2011, after many

Speaking to major Russian channel REN TV, Imam Sami Abu-Yusuf explains why hundreds of women found themselves groped, sexually assaulted and in some cases raped by gangs of migrant men in cities across Germany: “the events of New Year’s Eve were the girls own fault, because they were half naked and wearing perfume. It is

Female Muslim professor says rape is an acceptable form of humiliation. Video via MEMRI.  “The female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own.’ In order to humiliate them, they become the property of the army commander, or of a Muslim, and he can have sex with them just like he has sex with his

Condescending, smug, and pretentious — the hallmarks of progressives.   On December 19th, MTV decided to release a video that singled out white men for ridicule, and painted it as a helpful guide on how they should act in 2017. The video itself featured various people saying things like “Blue Lives Matter isn’t a thing,” and