2014-04-23

When You Got Nothing, You Got Emotion

I came upon a couple of crazy articles I must share with you and only you.

The first concerns math, stats and Stand your Ground at The Society Pages.

Let's play flippy-charty-mathy with sociologists.

I won't try and over think this chart since the comments in the article do a much better job than I could ever muster so I'll just go with the hard data provided.

In the early 1990s there were 873 homicides. Then it dropped until SYG was enacted in 2005 and a spike occurred. However, despite the spike, there's still a longer-term drop - a 17% drop.

You can flip charts all you want to make them look scary but it won't change a damn statistical thing. 

In my view, this article not only itself is deceptive but it takes me for a fool. Nothing 'skyrocketed' accept the level of derp provided. It's almost as if people want to be deceived through emoshunz and vapid language without proper context like 'skyrocketed.' To say nothing of the utterly childish antic of flipping a chart. It's about as useful as trying to play a Beatles tune backwards in search of McCartney's death.

Funny. The case is different in Utah. If the author was so concerned and honest, she'd have pointed to the strange date in Utah. Right. Wrong narrative. Never mind that homicide rates have been on a steady decline in the USA since the 1960s.

They also don't talk about Chicago in relation to gun-control. Since its gun ban, here critics can arguably say murders 'skyrocketed.'

Stand your ground, like global warming, has become an alarmist's play ground.

Also, not sure how they collect data for SYG deaths, which I reckon, are considered 'justifiable homicide' since they are acts of self-defense. So the chart is useless as it doesn't take this into consideration. As useless as using and obsessing over Zimmerman as a leitmotif in attempting to overturn SYG.

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