Excaliber wrote:What these graphs imply is that if guns weren't available, there wouldn't be murders. They impress the moron vote, and that is their intent.
The fact is that these events would simply become knife, machete, bat, golf club, rock, etc. murders if a gun wasn't handy.
I have investigated homicides where people were murdered with (not by) a bathroom scale, poodle leash, can opener, Listerine bottle, electric transmission cable, and a pretty good assortment of other miscellaneous items not normally considered weapons but they were plenty effective as instruments of death in the hands of someone with murderous intent.
Murderers use what's handy, and dead by rock is just as dead as by gun. When I visited the evidence room of a Caribbean island's police department, there wasn't a gun to be seen. It was stacked floor to ceiling with bloody machetes and clubs of various types.
A more informative chart would be one that showed the relative use of various instances of death in each country.
The statistics can be displayed / manipulated to show pretty much anything in an argument. It's the same with banning so called "assault rifles" for the good of everyone, yet more people die from other things such as hammers or bats each year. If you displayed that data in the same type of chart, it would clearly be shown. That is why the MSM and the gun grabbers never display that data in a similar chart.