Corporations have many options when it comes to displaying statistics, including the ability to change the x and y axis between increments of thousandths, millions, or whatever they choose. These corporations can also choose to display total statistics or per capita statistics, or homicides vs, all gun deaths in the case of gun violence, leading to stats on the same two countries but completely different results. For example, while America includes every homicide that it can confirm occurs in any of its reports, the United kingdom, "exclude any cases which do not result in conviction, or where the person is not prosecuted on grounds of self-defence or otherwise." For comparison, "In 2012, the US murder rate was 4.7 per 100,000, a total
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Every year, millions of people are under attack. After a mass shooting or a gun violence statistic goes viral, the media loses all logic and blasts the public with nonsense. Children everywhere in America are being misinformed about why and how guns are used. Big money corporations are inclined to manipulate statistics of gun violence by including suicides and switching between overall deaths and per capita, and celebrities are pleading to the public to make ‘common sense’ gun control that would be impossible in practice. While some may claim there needs to be heavier gun control to stop all of the mass shootings, it is important to consider these claims are based off of inaccurate statistics, and gun control does not need to be changed in …show more content…
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, at least 27.8% of assault is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and if the ratios stay the same and accounting for the unknown portion of the table, 58.6% of all assault could have the offended under the influence. Drugs are commonly distributed through gangs, potentially making drugs available to the common man that could also lead to assualt. The table used is
Every year, millions of people are under attack. After a mass shooting or a gun violence statistic goes viral, the media loses all logic and blasts the public with nonsense. Children everywhere in America are being misinformed about why and how guns are used. Big money corporations are inclined to manipulate statistics of gun violence by including suicides and switching between overall deaths and per capita, and celebrities are pleading to the public to make ‘common sense’ gun control that would be impossible in practice. While some may claim there needs to be heavier gun control to stop all of the mass shootings, it is important to consider these claims are based off of inaccurate statistics, and gun control does not need to be changed in …show more content…
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, at least 27.8% of assault is under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and if the ratios stay the same and accounting for the unknown portion of the table, 58.6% of all assault could have the offended under the influence. Drugs are commonly distributed through gangs, potentially making drugs available to the common man that could also lead to assualt. The table used is