Gun Ownership Is One Way Americans Lead The World

[Woodbuchr]

Actually it was entirely necessary, as it explained what they meant by skewed. It seems like you went to great lengths to hide the part of the sentence that explains what you were asking about, which is odd.

In statistics, skew is just how asymmetric the distribution is. That's not a criticism of the validity of the data, and certainly does not mean they are distorted. That is how they are.

We could go tit for tat all day on this. I did not go to great lengths to hide anything, it was right there in the thread, I just did not feel it necessary to reapeat what I felt was not needed. The quoted source admitted a "relative comparison" would have been skewed, by a dollar or a dime at that point is moot, IMO, obviously not in your opinion.

As for statistics I am not a real fan because I know how they can be twisted to suit the agenda of the person or group producung them, on either side of an argument.

"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" Benjamin Disraeli

[octoburn]

With less than 5 percent of the world's population, the United States is home to roughly 35-50 percent of the world's civilian-owned guns, heavily skewing the global geography of firearms and any relative comparison.

The U.S. also leads wealthy nations in gun homicides, with a rate ten times that of other countries in NATO. This doesn't say much for the NRA's calls for more Americans to arm themselves and their schools in the wake of the Newtown tragedy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_2536099.html

In which areas of this country do the vast majority of gun homicides occur? And are there any common factors that those areas share?