Most likely they chose to compare european countries against each other because they would all have somewhat similar ethnic backgrounds, you could just as easily compare majority white populations, against majority asian populations, against majority black populations to find out who is responsible for most of the violent crime but that wasnt the intent of the study. For example, China's murder rate is very similar to Japan's. Just as most african countries are at the top of the list for murder rates, followed by south american countries. Also i find it laughable that you believe a far left libtard from harvard would actually be trying to cook the books in favour of the pro gun side.
It's conceivable that whoever put this study together, simply drew their conclusions out of pure ignorance, not even realizing that they stopped way short of any kind of real research. Their mistake was by stating their "conclusions", while they were still about 99 yards out of the end zone. Whether its deception is purposeful or not, I can't say, but I can say for certain it's conclusions are BS, and misleading. Harvard. lol. Some of the dumbest laziest sons of bitches I've ever known- except for my uncle Willard, God rest him...
Anything to bury your head in the sand and avoid facing reality, if you dont understand why they would have done the study on people with simlar cultural and ethnic backgrounds, then you are even dumber than you come across on ET.
Nobody appears to want to mention that over 50% of the murders in the U.S. occur in cities that have strict gun control laws (D.C., New York, Chicago, etc.). These cities represent 5% of the population. If you eliminate these cities when performing a crime comparison to the EU then the countries in Europe have a higher violent crime rate then the 95% of the U.S. population living in areas without strict gun control laws.
looks to me like the relatively homogeneous societies have lower crime and murder levels. I wonder why?
You lie Largely irrelevant. Hospital staff errors is probably the source for that number. I read somewhere else it was closer 300,000.
Mixing meds and alcohol is killing a lot more people than guns ever did. People forget how many meds they take and od on them also, they die without the alcohol even. All the anti-gun assholes grew up in cities where criminals had guns, they think that disarming the populace will disarm criminals, LOL. There is lots of short-circuited thinking going on in all fields of thought. People seem to prefer it because it can be expressed in short slogans that are easy to remember and repeat. Usually the slogans give the sayer the moral high ground, never mind that their ideas will greatly harm the culture, they just want the moral high ground and they don't like being bothered with the facts.
Class structure is the stronger variable. You can look at our own murder rate and gini coefficient by year and see the relationship. This relationship has disconnected recently thanks to heightened enforcement and incarceration--the rise of the police state.