tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post4629135726814912485..comments2024-02-10T12:05:30.851-07:00Comments on Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Gun Violence: Reality vs. PerceptionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post-46967491332280455182012-08-07T11:29:28.735-06:002012-08-07T11:29:28.735-06:00Sorry, been busy....
I took a look into the Canad...Sorry, been busy....<br /><br />I took a look into the Canadian statistics and it does definitely seem to show a downward trend in violent crime. My mistake there. <br /><br />I made the argument I did while thinking back to a book I had read called 'On Combat', written by a US Army Lt. Col. named Dave Grossman. It's basically about the psychology and physiology of humans in combat. <br /><br />I grabbed the book to find the chapter I was recalling and just to give you a few excerpts from the chapter 'The Evolution of Combat and Domestic Violent Crime'.....<br /><br />Page 225/226:<br />"Since 1957, the U.S. per capita aggravated assault rate (which is, essentially, the rate of attempted murder) has gone up nearly fivefold, while the per capita murder rate has less than doubled. The reason for this disparity is the vast progress in medical technology since 1957, to include everything from mouth to mouth resuscitation, to the national 9-1-1 emergency telephone system, to medical technology advances. Otherwise murder would be going up at the same rate as attempted murder."<br /><br />Page 226:<br />"In 2002, Anthony Harris and a team of scholars from the University of Massachusetts and Harvard, published a landmark study in the journal Homicide Studies which concluded that medical technology advances since 1970 have prevented approximately three out of four murders. That is, if we had 1970's level medical technology, the murder rate would be three or four times higher than it is today."<br /><br />There's lots more but I'm not going to post every one of them. <br /><br />I checked out the FBI statistics and violent crime in the states also seems to be decreasing in recent years. It seems the good Colonel is basing his facts on the bigger picture since 1957 rather than the most recent (and important) decades.<br /><br />That's all I got. Oh and aside from that little hiccup, that book is phenomenal for the record. It's pretty much a must read for any and every combat arms soldier in my opinion.Lucasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post-3673176351596977352012-08-06T16:34:07.450-06:002012-08-06T16:34:07.450-06:00hey nos, what is interesting however, is that the ...hey nos, what is interesting however, is that the rate of violent crime is currently incereasing in impoverished communities!<br />something to do with all that inequality stuff !<br /><br />. A scientific paper, printed in the prestigious publication Social Science and Medicine, and written by Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy (both of the Harvard School of Public Health) and Richard G. Wilkinson (University of Sussex) shows that several violent crimes have a definite relationship with economic inequality. That means that as the economic inequality grows larger, there is a rise in the incidence of these crimes.<br /><br />The researchers used crime data from many police organizations (including the FBI) to compare crime rates in states that have a large income inequality to states that have a lesser income inequalty. They found that violent crimes (like robbery, aggravated assault, and homicide) do correlate to the income equality in the states. The only violent crime that did not have a correlation is rape. The only non-violent crime with a fairly strong correlation is burglary. Here are the correlation numbers (note that homicide has the strongest correlation):<br /><br />homicide...............0.74<br />aggravated assault...............0.50<br />burglary...............0.44<br />robbery...............0.36<br />rape...............0.13Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post-77041790821756132382012-07-26T13:42:21.879-06:002012-07-26T13:42:21.879-06:00I should be clear in writing the rate of these inc...I should be clear in writing the rate of these incidents have declined.Kurt Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13095783666657738968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post-51271524604932189952012-07-26T13:38:32.659-06:002012-07-26T13:38:32.659-06:00Well, the problem with your argument is that not o...Well, the problem with your argument is that not only have homicides declined, but also other violent crimes have also declined. <br /><br />Assault. <br />Rape.<br />Attempted murder.<br /><br />All have fallen along with homicide rates. These are indicated by the statistics you suggest we examine.<br /><br />So if your belief is that the only reason why homicide rates have decreased is because of improved medical techniques and innovations, you then need to account for the decline in attempted murders and assaults as well.Kurt Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13095783666657738968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4335908177719535466.post-65785140800067906942012-07-26T05:28:32.275-06:002012-07-26T05:28:32.275-06:00You're overlooking one very important fact in ...You're overlooking one very important fact in this article. The homicide rate may be lower today in virtually all western countries but it is in no way due to a reduction in violent crime. It's because in many cases today people are surviving attacks that would have been a death sentence 40 years ago and this is due to advancements in medical treatment and technology over the past several decades.<br /><br />Look at the statistics for attempted murder and assaults and I think you'll see a completely different trend.<br /><br />As for gun control, concealed carry and all that jazz...I could bicker all day about that but I've got to get to work. ;)Lucasnoreply@blogger.com