European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns

By Dean Weingarten

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European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns
Dean Weingarten
Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(  This has been one of my most popular articles.  I wrote it a year ago and published it on the 3 January, 2013 and it is good to take alook again one year later.

It shows the fallacies of comparing murder rates in the United States to Europe.














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  • 7 thoughts on “European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns

    1. The argument is often phrased as “gun violence” instead of simply “violence.” A country that has less gun ownership may have less “gun violence” and yet have more violence overall. The victim does not care if he is robbed at knife point instead of gun point.

    2. I’m ok with this analysis. You could go even deeper with it and attribute the violence to blacks that are of Southern heritage. The South and particularly upper class Southerners value and respect violence as a means to resolve issues. Many Latin cultures have similar cultural values to the old South. Mexico is a culture that values the man on the horse for example, and glorifies violent drug gangsters or guy like Zapata that go down fighting. What is the connection between upper class violent Southern whites and lower class blacks? Easy black slaves adopted the values and vices of their masters including a propensity for violence and other traits such as living in debt, gambling, etc.

    3. There is certain something missing in your report. Its the fact that blacks and Hispanics are much more likely to grow up in poverty than whites. That is a major contributing factor that you have left out of your analysis. As such your analysis does not tell the whole story. A study on Income levels and gun violence would tell a m ore comprehensive story than a simple demographics model. Also if you take a group of people and remove them from poverty, you will likely see in at least some cases that after a few generations their murder (Whether by gun violence or other means) and crime rates would drop significantly to a level similar to what is for nonhispanic whites. If we are to reduce crime in the future we need to address the contributing factors to crime and poverty is a big one.

      1. Excuses for ‘criminal behavior’ are like ‘azzholes’, everybody has one! Morality is always left out of the equation.

    4. You are a racist. Your article was reprinted word for word from American Renaissance, a known racist organization. I could not find the DOJ report you referenced. The link went nowhere. You are also a liar and you disgust me!

      1. Wow didn’t take long for a liberal to throw the race card. Childish response when facts don’t agree with their world view and distorted reality. link works for me. If you look at FBI and USDOJ crime statistics (requires math skills and thinking skills beyond reciting party lines) they show the massive difference in crime/murder rates between races.

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