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Mexico actually has one of the lower homicide rates in Latin America (17th in LA, 20th worldwide). Proximity to the US isn't correlated with a high homicide rat

• i_am_proteus 8y ago
  What you're pointing out is exactly what the article misses: firearms are not the only tool used in homicides. Negative effects on society from homicide are because of the violent death, not because of the mechanism.
  • arduanika 8y ago
    That's a bingo! You can't really draw very much from the poorly framed data in this article. They selected these 6 countries by absolute number of deaths / guns, rather than per capita; mix suicides with homicides; and don't include the overall number of homicides, which (as I think you're suggesting) could be used to tease out direction of causality. Moreover, n=6 lies in the realm of anecdote, not data. There are ~200 countries in the UN. If you want to know anything significant, throw all their gun ownership rates, homicide rotes, Gini coefficients, etc into a regression and maybe you'll be able to say something interesting.
    • i_am_proteus 8y ago
      You just say bingo.