DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree."

[Mik]

Exactly. Just like locks only keep out honest people.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm guessing the rest of the world must have a lot less criminals, based on shooting deaths elsewhere.

[Copper]

wiki

In Brazil, all firearms are required to be registered with the minimum age for gun ownership being 25. It is generally illegal to carry a gun outside a residence, and a special permit granting the right to do so is granted to certain groups, such as law enforcement officers.

Gun deaths by country

Brazil — 49,436
United States — 37,038

[Doctor Phibes]

Maybe if you stopped allowing Brazilians into the US, you'd have less gun deaths.

[Jolly]

Sorry, but the buck stops at SCOTUS.

This is a glaring example why we need to A) fumigate Justice, and B) get it the hell out of D.C.

[89th]

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

I'm guessing the rest of the world must have a lot less criminals, based on shooting deaths elsewhere.

Gun Deaths (not suicide) per 100k... top 30 countries

[Jolly]

Canada made the Top 30?

[Copper]

@89th said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

Gun Deaths (not suicide) per 100k... top 30 countries

I saw that, but I didn't want to rub it in.

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

I'm guessing the rest of the world must have a lot less criminals, based on shooting deaths elsewhere.

Gun Deaths (not suicide) per 100k... top 30 countries

Yes, and most if not all of the countries at the top of that list would almost certainly have been referred to by an erudite and sophisticated former POTUS in scatological terms.

Whether you view this as a success or not is of course up to you.

[Jolly]

Freedom has a price.

Seriously, take certain neighborhoods out of the stats and things would look much, much different.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

Seriously, take certain neighborhoods out of the stats and things would look much, much different.

Well, yeah, if you only count the areas without gun violence, then there isn't going to be a lot of recorded gun violence.

Based on that logic, we could remove the top 15 nations from the list, and put the US as number 1!

[89th]

BTW I am not ashamed to admit I googled "where is Eswatini". Figured it sounded like a Star Wars planet.

[Doctor Phibes]

@89th said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

BTW I am not ashamed to admit I googled "where is Eswatini". Figured it sounded like a Star Wars planet.

It's actually a martini made with cheap Bourbon.

(Tastes like shithole country)

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@Jolly said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

Seriously, take certain neighborhoods out of the stats and things would look much, much different.

Well, yeah, if you only count the areas without gun violence, then there isn't going to be a lot of recorded gun violence.

Based on that logic, we could remove the top 15 nations from the list, and put the US as number 1!

Yes, but then the violence is not a societal problem, but a very bad problem for slim sections of society.

[Copper]

2015

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heat-map-of-gun-homicide-rate-per-10-000-population-by-county-in-the-contiguous-US-2015_fig1_337997106

[Copper]

Those darned poor people.

https://www.brookings.edu/2022/04/21/mapping-gun-violence-a-closer-look-at-the-intersection-between-place-and-gun-homicides-in-four-cities/

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@89th said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

I'm guessing the rest of the world must have a lot less criminals, based on shooting deaths elsewhere.

Gun Deaths (not suicide) per 100k... top 30 countries

Yes, and most if not all of the countries at the top of that list would almost certainly have been referred to by an erudite and sophisticated former POTUS in scatological terms.

Whether you view this as a success or not is of course up to you.

Did you know that if you take out African American vs African American gang violence, that the UK has a higher murder rate than the US? So what do you the problem is?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

Did you know that if you take out African American vs African American gang violence, that the UK has a higher murder rate than the US?

I don't doubt that for a second.

Gotta source for that?

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@89th said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

@Doctor-Phibes said in DOJ to SCOTUS: "We respectfully disagree.":

I'm guessing the rest of the world must have a lot less criminals, based on shooting deaths elsewhere.

Gun Deaths (not suicide) per 100k... top 30 countries

Yes, and most if not all of the countries at the top of that list would almost certainly have been referred to by an erudite and sophisticated former POTUS in scatological terms.

Whether you view this as a success or not is of course up to you.

Did you know that if you take out African American vs African American gang violence, that the UK has a higher murder rate than the US? So what do you the problem is?

Did you know that if you pick all the cherries off a tree that you still have a cherry tree?

If you're going to compare the two countries, you probably need to remove UK gang violence from the equation, too. Amazingly enough, Britain isn't one large homogenous mix either.

Did you know that the US suicide rate is roughly double that of the UK? Which is going some if you consider the food and the weather.

[Jolly]

Does this mean Brits are too damn lazy to even kill themselves?