It’s sad that the suicide rate is rising faster in non-whites catching up to whites. Suicide in general is of course sad for all people, but it’s depressing to think that it’s “getting worse faster” for people who had historically lower rates.
jermleeds on
My takeaway is that guns facilitate a wide variety of horrible outcomes across the entire demographic spectrum.
criticalalpha on
OP, very clean presentation and good effort to show the various complexities in the data. Suggestion: Figure out a way to add in the impact of age. I’ve seen it elsewhere, where the white male suicides are predominately older folks vs. black male homicides are mostly in the 15-35 year old range. The causes and societal impact of the actions within those two differing groups are important to understand and require different actions to address.
Whornz4 on
The gun household ownership data is really old. It’s from 2004. If NICS is any indication there have been 150-200 million more gun background checks done.
Also, the black vs white comparisons ignore the human death toll regardless of skin color. Moreover, gun violence is prevelant in areas with access issues and high poverty, which happen to almost be largely African American neighborhoods.
ConversationKey3138 on
Scatter plot isn’t the right graph to use with a continuous Y and discrete X axis
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It’s sad that the suicide rate is rising faster in non-whites catching up to whites. Suicide in general is of course sad for all people, but it’s depressing to think that it’s “getting worse faster” for people who had historically lower rates.
My takeaway is that guns facilitate a wide variety of horrible outcomes across the entire demographic spectrum.
OP, very clean presentation and good effort to show the various complexities in the data. Suggestion: Figure out a way to add in the impact of age. I’ve seen it elsewhere, where the white male suicides are predominately older folks vs. black male homicides are mostly in the 15-35 year old range. The causes and societal impact of the actions within those two differing groups are important to understand and require different actions to address.
The gun household ownership data is really old. It’s from 2004. If NICS is any indication there have been 150-200 million more gun background checks done.
Also, the black vs white comparisons ignore the human death toll regardless of skin color. Moreover, gun violence is prevelant in areas with access issues and high poverty, which happen to almost be largely African American neighborhoods.
Scatter plot isn’t the right graph to use with a continuous Y and discrete X axis