Our homicide rate is 4-5X higher than countries with strong gun control. There is a big dent to be made.
MAss killings account for 1% of all murders
And our homicide rate is not driven by guns it is driven by the cancer we have allowed to spread in our inner cities
You back to this crap again. Denver used to be the cop murder capital of the World. It also, per capita, was ranked with Chicago and Detroit. It currently hhas 1/7th the rate. It's one of the lowest rates for cities in the nation. Why is that?
Chicago rates 26 per year while Detroit rates 43. Baltimore is a whopping 58. St. Louis owns the record at a whopping 60. Meanwhile NYC comes in with a paltry 4. Tell me again that stricter gun regs don't make a difference. NYC has about the most strict in the nation. Denver coming in at less than 8 has less strict. But places in the deep south are off the danged charts. Not as bad as St. Louis but as bad or worse than Chicago. Remember these figures when you are going off on the number murders in Chicago, Detroit or, especially, NYC. NYC learned from the Denver experiment of the 60s and 70s. It just took them until the 90s to start it. Just remember, Dallas and Houston are much worse than NYC by a huge margin 10 and 11. That is the reality. But if you watch too much TV and Movies, NYC looks like a killing ground. You are safer in NYC than almost any City in the US but not according to the Boob Tube Cop shows. And even Los Angeles come out looking pretty go with a rating of 7. But don't bring up just about every other major city in the South. Those are killing grounds in comparison to NYC.
Some of the Cities learned from Denver and it shows. NYC learned the lesson and should teach the class these days.
Now, on the western side of Colorado where we are a deep red part of the state (the blue Tsunami that hit Colorado last Tuesday) completely misses us here, our murder rate per capita is higher than Denvers and it continues to rise. This area doesn't have a lot of tall apartment buildings crammed together. Most of it is single home dwellings. It's not much of an Urban area yet our crime rate is out of control. Even here, I don't worry about walking down the street at 2am and worry about my safety. Most of this murder happens in certain locations and it doesn't flow out to where I live. Why? Because we won't tolerate it. You want to be violent, you go live with the other violent people. BTW, more whites kill whites than other races kill whites and other races. Grand Junction Colorado made the top 10 of the worst places to live in the State along with all the towns within 160 miles of it. I could tell you why but let's leave that for another time and another discussion.
As for mass murders, Colorado has had three until common sense gun regulations, policies and community involvement were started. I know we can't stop them but we can keep the body count down. And that is exactly what we do.