tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post2639616175146632695..comments2024-03-29T11:29:58.276+09:00Comments on BigHominid's Hairy Chasms: Illinois, the newest state to abandonKevin Kimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5541500.post-84996534913749673562022-06-30T15:54:12.908+09:002022-06-30T15:54:12.908+09:00Anonymous commenter: read this. Leave a name next ...Anonymous commenter: <a href="https://bighominid.blogspot.com/2022/06/once-again-note-to-commenters.html" rel="nofollow">read this</a>. Leave a name next time.<br /><br />And I looked up gun-death stats for Illinois vs. Florida and Miami versus Chicago. I wish you had cited sources, but since you didn't, I'll cite mine. The CDC, which is not exactly a rightie establishment, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm" rel="nofollow">says this</a> about firearm mortality by state:<br /><br />Illinois: 14.1 per 100,000<br />Florida: 13.7 per 100,000<br /><br />So you're wrong on that count. Illinois is, overall, worse, and it's mainly because of Chicago, as we'll see in a moment.<br /><br />For cities, I checked <a href="https://everytownresearch.org/report/city-data/" rel="nofollow">a different source</a> for gun-homicide stats. Results:<br /><br />Chicago, 2018: 17.6 per 100,000<br />Miami, 2018: 8.9 per 100,000 (no data beyond 2018)<br /><br />So Chicago is way worse than Miami by a factor of 2.<br /><br />That fits the rightie narrative for sure. And within red states, all that gun violence is concentrated in the big cities, which are blue. Factor those out, and you're at European levels of gun violence. Note, too, that the big cities have both the strictest gun laws and the most gun violence. The irony isn't lost on me, but it apparently is lost on the left.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com