In Re @autopsy_87 - American Gun Culture
Channel: The Justicar
Date: 16/10/2015

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Autopsy's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0KiIzLMh3k

Columbine Documentary I mentioned: https://youtu.be/WBkMWeI2P9Y?t=34m13s

Australia homicide rate in 1990: http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html

Australia homicide rate in 2013: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4510.0main+features82013

Article about the last officially sanctioned massacre carried out by the Australian government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coniston_massacre

Errata:

Also, in this video I variously alternated between saying murder and homicide. While I shouldn't do that, for purposes of this video, I am using both terms to refer to all homicides, whatever the means by which it was perpetrated.

It has come to my attention by an alert viewer that the section of this video in which I speak about the homicide rate according to the statistics disseminated by the Australian government has some funny business behind them.  Here is a link to his open letter to me: https://scarcesense.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/open-letter-to-justicar-of-the-rationalists/

The crux of his analysis is that my error arises from having used two different sources from within the Australian government. However, even using a consistent agency, the claim is the same: that the homicide victimization rate is 1.9 in 2013, and in the early 1990s. 

In lieu of the 1990 source from AIC that I have posted above, you may look at this source, also the ABS, and notice about a third of the way down the page that their graph shows a rate between 1.7 and 1.9 for the early 1990s, and that the rate has stayed fairly stable since the 1970s:  http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4524A092E30E4486CA2569DE00256331

However, there's a bit of sleight of hand that's been worked into the reports issued by the agencies at issue: they have inconsistent definitions of what makes a homicide victim. In Australia, it's possible to be a homicide victim even if you live. This is, of course, a sin against the English language, but anyone who reads 'homicide victimization rate' would, if they spoke normal English, believe that they're being told about people who have been killed. 

Not in Australia. And nowhere that I can find is this bizarre, torturous meaning of the term 'homicide victim' defined. 

Anyway, using consistent definitions, the homicide rate in 1993 was 1.86 and it's 1.16 as of 2014.



Around 21:55, I said back when the US had lax laws in relation to these other countries, back before we had lax laws in relation to them. That is, back when we all  had lax laws.