Are You Safer on the Streets of Chicago or in The Hospital?

It is often cited by the media that there are 30,000 gun-relate deaths each year. That’s all of  .001% of the population.

• 65% of those deaths are by suicide
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths

So, the relevant “gun violence” death count is 5100.  25% of these occur in 4 cities – Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit and DC, all of which have strict gun laws, but lots of criminal activity.  Guns? Or criminals on the street?

200,000+ people die each year from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking around  Chicago than when you are in a hospital.  Maybe we ought to ban hospitals?

Are you beginning to wonder whether the cries for gun control are motivated by something other than simply saving lives?

Income Inequality is NOT increasing

If you turn on CNN or MSNBC you will hear constant reference to "increasing income inequality". If this were true and not just propaganda, you'd expect real data to support that claim. Yet it doesn't. The level of income inequality in the United states hasn't changed in the last 25 years. So, if this wasn't keeping you up at night in 1998, why is it in 2019?

The Gini index, or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income or wealth distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measurement of inequality. It was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini.

A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality, where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has the same income). A Gini coefficient of 1 (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values .

Illegals Depress Worker's Wages in California.

Supply and demand. Supply and demand. When you import thousands of illegal immigrants every month, it will depress the wages of all lower skilled workers.  The folks in Silicon Valley and Hollywood seem to love this policy. They're doing just fine, and those illegals are cheap labor to tend their gardens and clean their homes.