1980 was a boom for this country, you doofus....you listen to the democrats and then have no idea what the truth is.......
Our gangs became more violent around the mid 1960s........after the Great Society started to destroy our families in the cities the democrat party controlled...
You don't understand the issue........you are an idiot..........our gun crime rate didn't start going up until the mid 1960s all the way to the 1990s.....then we started allowing normal people to carry guns....
You would have to explain why it is that as more people carried guns, our gun crime rate went down, our gun murder rate went down...your theories can't explain that.........
Over 27 years, from 1993 to the year 2015, 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 19.4 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2019 (in 2020 that number is 21.52 million)...guess what happened...
New Concealed Carry Report For 2020: 19.48 Million Permit Holders, 820,000 More Than Last Year despite many states shutting down issuing permits because of the Coronavirus - Crime Prevention Research Center
-- 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.
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The gun murder and gun suicide rates in the U.S. both remain below their peak levels. There were 6.2 gun murders per 100,000 people in 2020, below the rate of 7.2 recorded in 1974.
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
Paper...why crime declined in the 90s
https://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf
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Over the past few decades, the number of guns in America has increased massively, so much so that there are now more guns than people in the United States. Yet federal crime statistics show that firearm homicides dropped about 40 percent between 1993 and 2018, from 7 per 100,000 people to 4.3 per 100,000 people (for nonfatal crimes involving guns, the decline was 71 percent). Violent crime, including homicides, did spike during the pandemic, and while the most recent data is incomplete, it's clear that gun-related violence remains far below where it was 30 years ago despite more guns than ever being out there.
Your crime rate went down 20 years after abortion was legalized. The drop was 10%. It be then dropped 1% each year thereafter for 5 years.
Each increase in gun sales since then, has seen increase in crime rates in murder.
If guns kept you safe, the USA would be the safest country in the first world, instead of the most dangerous and deadly.