Reply #126: Since we're talking murder victims (i.e. corpses), it didn't make any difference in their cases [View All]

[Euromutt]

"Murder victim," by definition, means someone who has been murdered (and is therefore dead). You can't say "these 93% were less likely to be murdered because their assailants didn't use guns" because the one thing we can say with absolute certainty about these people is that each and every one of them had a 100% chance of being murdered; because they were.

I get the impression that you don't quite understand what these statistics mean. You seem to be under the impression that there's a non-firearm homicide rate which is the same for every country, and the firearm homicide rate comes on top of that "baseline," so that the higher the percentage of homicides committed with a firearm, the higher the homicide rate. That's just plain wrong.