donP: I mean how bad do you have to feel about yourself, to actually be disappointed and in denial over a 30+ year record low violent crime rate?
You create a bigoted & sickening false premise, obviously to feed your own ego & diminish your opponents, who make more sense than you ever will.
A couple things faulty in your implications. One is that, from early 90's to 2000, gun ownership declined approx. 30%, the same time period which saw dramatic declines in violent crime rates. Since 2000 gun ownership has also declined but not as large a rate, remaining approx. 2 in 9 personally own a firearm. Approx 3 in ten households own a firearm, iirc accd'g to GSS & Pew.
In other words, since the early 90's there is a correlation between declining gun ownership rates & declining violent crime rates.
Since JFK was assassinated, & semi automatic firearms came en vogue, the violent crime rate sits doubled in the year 2013;
Circa 1960's the national gunstock was approx. 75 millions, 300 millions today.
In other words, national gunstock increased 300% since 1960's and the violent crime rate has near doubled since then.
MORE GUNS MORE CRIME.
Moreover, in intervening years between 60's & now, the violent crime rate hit the top end of the roller coaster ride at near quadrupling.
You ignore the ugly years & cherry pick red delicious.
...... pop .......... total crime...... viol ... property ... murder
1964 .. 191,141,000 .. 2,388.1 .. 190.6 .. 2,197.5 .. 4.9
1993 ..257,908,000 .. 5,484.4 .. 746.8 .. 4,737.7 .. 9.5
2013 .. 316,128,839 .. 3,098.6 .. 367.9 .. 2,730.7 .. 4.5
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
don p: The control side is absolutely sure of so many things that just never happen
Well it actually DID happen, now didn't it? violent crime increased & murder increased (now simply down to parity with 60's)
donP: But, in their defense, they never tire of being wrong and saying it louder the next time, as if that will make something change.
You're the wrong ones, & you need pull those earplugs out.
MORE GUNS, MORE LIES. Donp is proof.
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