Google Trends is showing a continuing uptick in searches using terms related to gun control or gun regulation. The letters on the graph indicate newspaper articles about various aspects. There's a good analysis of the data by Rebecca Rosen of the Atlantic here.
I will be traveling over the next several weeks and expect to return to this issue in some detail in February.
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Showing posts with label gun control. Show all posts
Monday
Some gun data
The Guardian has posted an interactive US Gun Crime Map on its data blog. The screenshot above shows the percent change in firearms murders per 100,000 population between 2010 and 2011. (Note that no data are available for Alabama and Florida.)
You can also see firearms murders as a percent of all murders, firearms murders per 100,000 population in 2010 and 2011, and firearms assaults and robberies per 100,000 population. It's interesting.
Saturday
One number
and it is too large: 27.
Please go to whitehouse.gov and sign this petition. And send a letter to the President: today is the right day to start the conversation about gun control, nationwide.
Update, December 17: For a good look at the discussion and where it can start, see this James Fallows blog post and related links. Further update: And if you need some definitions, Slate provides them here.
Please go to whitehouse.gov and sign this petition. And send a letter to the President: today is the right day to start the conversation about gun control, nationwide.
Update, December 17: For a good look at the discussion and where it can start, see this James Fallows blog post and related links. Further update: And if you need some definitions, Slate provides them here.
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