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In reply to the discussion: Man Taking Selfies With Gun Fatally Shoots Himself [View all]tabasco
(22,974 posts)77. Nope. Same stats. Same numbers. Just a lot of intentional misinterpretation, distortion and lying.
FACT: The number of gun deaths in the U.S. has not "steadily declined for several decades" as you claimed. The rate of U.S. gun deaths has remained stagnant for the past two decades, and the number of gun deaths in the U.S. is increasing.
More importantly, by making this mistake, the meme misunderstands the overall trend lines of gun homicides. Gun homicides didnt decline 49 percent over the last 12 years -- rather, they declined precipitously over six years in the 1990s, then have remained basically stagnant for the past decade or so. Why is this important? Because the decline, to a large degree, has to do with a specific reason -- the end of the crack epidemic. The decline in gun homicides in the 1990s "was largely a reversal of an upward trend that occurred in the mid-to-late 1980s," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. "There would not have been much of a downturn were it not for the surge. This up-and-down change was primarily in cities and among offenders under age 25, and indeed have much to do with crack markets and gang activity."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jun/16/facebook-posts/viral-meme-says-gun-homicides-are-down-49-percent-/
You claimed that gun deaths have "fallen steadily over several decades." In fact, the number of gun deaths in the U.S. is INCREASING.
Gun Violence Rates
Let's look at the U.S. GUN DEATH RATE.
Not "steadily decreasing for several decades" as you claimed, but unchanged for the past two decades.
If you want to look at MASS SHOOTINGS, we have a problem that is growing at an alarming rate.
SHAME on you and all the dishonest people twisting numbers to make this graph look ACCEPTABLE!
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Would you support subsidizing your proposed training requirement for low income people?
Marengo
Mar 2016
#18
You forgot the most important one of all... TREAT *EVERY* FIREARM AS IF IT WERE LOADED!
Ghost in the Machine
Mar 2016
#87
Nope. Same stats. Same numbers. Just a lot of intentional misinterpretation, distortion and lying.
tabasco
Mar 2016
#77
thankfully he took himself before he accidently shot someone or as the media would put it
saturnsring
Mar 2016
#6
Just like you shouldn't answer the telephone while ironing clothes with a hot iron.
Nye Bevan
Mar 2016
#7