Comments on: Hehe, Buttman http://www.saysuncle.com/2004/10/18/hehe_buttman/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:04:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jay G http://www.saysuncle.com/2004/10/18/hehe_buttman/comment-page-1/#comment-9542 Jay G Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:20:07 +0000 /?p=3945#comment-9542 markm, You owe me a new monitor... "<i>I suspect that is because the only statistic they could find where Montana came off worse was <b>citizens eaten by bears</b>, and that doesn’t fit very well with an anti-gun message.</i>" I am <b>still</b> chuckling mightily about that phrase... And FWIW, I think you hit the nail on the head as to why they chose the very specific "gun crime" stat rather than overall violence... markm,

You owe me a new monitor…

“I suspect that is because the only statistic they could find where Montana came off worse was citizens eaten by bears, and that doesn’t fit very well with an anti-gun message.”

I am still chuckling mightily about that phrase…

And FWIW, I think you hit the nail on the head as to why they chose the very specific “gun crime” stat rather than overall violence…

]]> By: markm http://www.saysuncle.com/2004/10/18/hehe_buttman/comment-page-1/#comment-9505 markm Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:14:19 +0000 /?p=3945#comment-9505 I'm pretty sure that if you look at violent crime rates, total or with and without guns, the states with the tightest gun laws have the highest rates by far. (I mean, several times as much crime per capita.) So they carefully hunted for a statistic that doesn't make NY look worse than Montana - and found it by figuring the % of violent crimes committed with guns. I suspect that is because the only statistic they could find where Montana came off worse was citizens eaten by bears, and that doesn't fit very well with an anti-gun message. I’m pretty sure that if you look at violent crime rates, total or with and without guns, the states with the tightest gun laws have the highest rates by far. (I mean, several times as much crime per capita.) So they carefully hunted for a statistic that doesn’t make NY look worse than Montana – and found it by figuring the % of violent crimes committed with guns. I suspect that is because the only statistic they could find where Montana came off worse was citizens eaten by bears, and that doesn’t fit very well with an anti-gun message.

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