When I was young gun owners were responsible, evidently that was a long time ago

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66. That's 20 years. But we do know that ALL violent crime is down since the 90s,

though it is trending upward again in the past 5 years. The authors of Freakonomics tried to figure out what was the reason for that. They plugged in every variable they could think of, like police numbers, gun numbers, attendance at religious institutions. They threw in every factor they could think of.

None of the factors they tested correlated except the availability of abortions from 1974 to the mothers of the children who would reaching the age at which they could commit a violent crime in the 90's. That was the only factor they could say with certainty contributed to the crime rate falling.

But at any rate, this doesn't support the poster saying that the crime rate with guns is lower than it was 50 years ago.

And even in the face of lower gun homicides, we are still faced with the explosion in active shooter incidents. These are not included in the gun homicide numbers.
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