OMG IT WAS SO HOT TODAY

[conuly]

Summer, am I right?

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How Israel defies drought

A map of what every state would be if it were a country

Bad News: Notorious Invasive Worm Just Found in U.S.

Spider-Man is back and he's black but not in Hollywood

The Demand for Sand is so High There are Illegal Sand Mining Operations (I posted about this a while back, I know, but it's still fascinating to me. WE ARE LITERALLY SELLING SAND TO THE ARABS.)

Modern humans and Neanderthals 'interbred in Europe'

A condom that changes colour when it comes into contact with STIs has been invented by a group of school pupils. (Not sure how practical this is. Is this REALLY how you want to find out you or your partner has an STD?)

Thousands of Guinea malaria cases go untreated amid Ebola fears

This is what happened when Australia introduced tight gun controls

CDC confirms red eyes at the pool are caused by urine, not chlorine

Fake quotes run rampant among GOP candidates

Jeb Bush Surprised How Easily Stance On Confederate Flag Set Him Apart From Other Republican Candidates

A black man threatens whites and it's labeled terrorism. But not when a white man kills blacks

Deal Is Near on Far-Reaching Reforms at Rikers, Including a Federal Monitor

The Prison Doors Open And You’re Released. You Have No Money Or Transportation. Now What?

Secret World War II Chemical Experiments Tested Troops By Race


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Greece defends 'harsh' reforms it promised creditors

U.S. will not prosecute families for paying hostage ransom

Islamic State fight requires new tactics: Iraqi commanders

US confirms it will place 250 tanks in eastern Europe to counter Russian threat

Moving ever closer to a new Cold War

NATO head says alliance to more than double rapid response force size

Pakistan heatwave: Death toll crosses 700 people in Sindh

Hungary suspends EU rule on asylum seekers

Taliban has a major northern Afghan city within its grasp for the first time since 2001

In Taliban's new attacks, a message to the Islamic State

Concern mounts over rights abuses in regional fight against Boko Haram

Comments

[conuly]

Several correlations start to indicate something. A single one? No, not so much. (Unless you want to "explain" why everything under the sun correlates with people dying by getting tangled in their bedsheets every year, that is.)

If you can show me that rapes are higher in most places with stricter gun control than in places without, then that might be compelling. And while you dig up that data, I'm going to finish my chapter. Edit: I'll get you started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics

I can't sort this chart by "strictness of gun control", but I notice that Japan - which has very strict gun control - has a vanishingly small number of rape reports compared to the US, and that the UK - which has stricter gun control than the US - has about half as many reported rapes. I don't know the relative "how controlled are their guns?" ranking for most nations off the top of my head.

Weapons being used in 2% of sexual assaults only means whether the assailant had a weapon. It says nothing about whether the victim shot him or not.

Do you know this to be the case, or are you assuming?