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hfojvt

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2. it might

Reply to dkf (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 12:31 PM

Dec 2012

different cities have different murder rates.

From 46.4 in Washington DC and 42.6 in Detroit and 38.1 in St. Louis down to 8.3 in Seattle and 5.6 in Boston

This is from 1999, and I am not sure what the history is of gun control laws in those various cities.

Although looking at DC and Detroit it seems like the homicide rate is proportional to the poverty rate.

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so the TV news is talking about multiple gunshot victims [View all] hfojvt Dec 2012 OP

Running the gamut of gun control laws... dkf Dec 2012 #1

it might hfojvt Dec 2012 #2

The poverty rate is probably more of a correlation. dkf Dec 2012 #3