[VIDEO] Lies, damn lies, and statistics, when it comes to guns

More legal guns less crimeOne of my favorite rhetorical firebombs when people start talking about the wonders of socialized medicine, and the fact that it’s soooo much better than America’s pre-Obamacare sort-of free market insurance central medicine, is to tell them the dirty little secret behind infant mortality statistics. Socialized medicine fans like to point out that, when it comes to dead babies, America is so bad that it ranks behind Cuba, Greece, and Slovenia, among other places. They are left slack-jawed when I tell them that, before you can analyze the numbers, you have to know who’s doing the counting and how they’re doing it.

America, you see, is one of the few countries that counts all babies born alive as viable, no matter how likely it is that their desperately bad condition at birth will result in their swift death. Other countries, however, disregard those poor, fragile babies, and count only healthy babies when it comes to calculating infant mortality. A different common denominator makes for very different outcomes.

Keep that in mind as you follow Bill Whittle’s explanation about America’s murder-by-gun statistics: