2aguy
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Amazing how these other countries keep their firearm homicide rate down with far fewer firearms in their populations. Bit of a mystery, really. Seems to run counter to the arguments advanced in this thread for increased firearm distribution. Can't understand it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14
Yep. Although really not a mystery at all. Most countries simply don't have the gun fetish we do, particularly the level of obsession exhibited by the OP of this thread. Exactly why we (i.e. they) worship at the feet of Death and Destruction is a whole 'nother question but the fact that they do is the basis of it.
You mean except for the fact that as more Americans joined our gun culture...our gun murder rate, our gun crime rate and our violent crime rate went down...you mean except for that fact...
Right, doofus?
The real problem is criminal control.....and attacking the police. We don't control our violent criminals, and the left wing democrats attack our police in our inner cities, creating the Ferguson Effect where the police stop pro actively policing.....nd then the criminals have free reign in the democrat controlled cities, driving up our gun murder numbers....
We went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 16.3 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2017...guess what happened...
-- gun murder down 49%
--gun crime down 75%
--violent crime down 72%
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.