Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds

Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by philwelch on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:30PM (#28557922)

Britain also spent a long time transporting violent criminals and resettling much of the relatively violent “Scotch-Irish”/“Borderer” population to the American colonies. We also got a lot of their religious fanatics. This explains a lot about America.

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by wutbrodo on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:25PM (#28571082)

If you're looking for ethnic explanations, the evidence deosnt match the claim that Borderers drive the American homicide rate to any real degree. While the White American murder rate is higher than Britain's, it's less than half that of the overall American murder rate, which is largely driven by the homicide rate amongst African Americans, which is 7x that of whites.

Source: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/05/21/how-amer...

Britain at 1.2, white Americans at 2.2, African Americans at 15.5

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by rpmisms on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:49PM (#28558802)

This is an excellent point that I don't hear often.

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