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As an Independent, I’d like to see the #FakeNews media stop with the propaganda. All they ever show is a seemingly endless stream of stories about gun violence. Why don’t they show equal airtime of all the stories where Great Americans defended themselves with their guns?

>errc says

As an Independent, I’d like to see the #FakeNews media stop with the propaganda. All they ever show is a seemingly endless stream of stories about gun violence. Why don’t they show equal airtime of all the stories where Great Americans defended themselves with their guns?

Agreed. When is CNN going to start showing the feel good stories about real Americans shooting bad cops? If that nurse in Utah had only had a gun, the cop wouldn't have dared falsely arrest her.

joeyjojojunior says

>errc says

As an Independent, I’d like to see the #FakeNews media stop with the propaganda. All they ever show is a seemingly endless stream of stories about gun violence. Why don’t they show equal airtime of all the stories where Great Americans defended themselves with their guns?

Agreed. When is CNN going to start showing the feel good stories about real Americans shooting bad cops? If that nurse in Utah had only had a gun, the cop wouldn't have dared falsely arrest her.

There are no bad cops, you Crumb Bumb Lush Creep!

I’m talking about the millions of Great Americans who have all these guns for protection. We never get to hear all the countless stories of them defending themselves with their guns. What gives? Why only an endless stream of instances of people falling victim to gun crimes?

errc says

We never get to hear all the countless stories of them defending themselves with their guns.

Start here:

https://www.americanrifleman.org/the-armed-citizen

bob2356 says

From 1993 to 1998 firearms ownership went up 10% and firearms homicides dropped by 50%. Since 1998 firearms ownership has gone up over 50% yet firearms homicides have decreased 5%. Do you have some kind of point because there certainly isn't any correlation to be seen here.

You seem to be having issues with percentages. Also, why did you not post this other chart from that page?

http://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-more-guns-less-gun-violence-between-1993-and-2013/
It shows homicide rates went down -49%, not the -5% like you stated.

anonymous says

You seem to be having issues with percentages. Also, why did you not post this other chart from that page?

Actually, you seem to be having trouble with dates. 1993 is different than 1998.

Republicans banning bump stocks.

anonymous says

bob2356 says

From 1993 to 1998 firearms ownership went up 10% and firearms homicides dropped by 50%. Since 1998 firearms ownership has gone up over 50% yet firearms homicides have decreased 5%. Do you have some kind of point because there certainly isn't any correlation to be seen here.

You seem to be having issues with percentages. Also, why did you not post this other chart from that page?

http://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-more-guns-less-gun-violence-between-1993-and-2013/
It shows homicide rates went down -49%, not the -5% like you stated.

Ah yes CIC math again. Not only can you not do numbers you can't even do dates. That is the chart I posted and the percentages are clear. There is no correlation between firearms ownership and firearms homicides. The firearms homicide rate has barely moved in 20 years while ownership has skyrocketed. Why doesn't the chart go back another 20 years? Firearm ownership didn't go up much in those 20 years but firearms homicides dropped a lot. It's only if you look at a couple very specific dates and fudge the numbers around that you get the results claimed.

I'm not having any trouble at all with percentages. You are having your usual problem with the concept of changes in the rate of change.

Very odd. The AEI chart doesn't jive at all with the Bureau of ATF manufacturing chart. Anyone want to defend where AEI gets their numbers from? The numbers don't even match the source (congressional research service) they claim as their basis. Having 357 million guns for 315 million people isn't 1.45 guns per person it's 1.1. CIC works for AEI now I guess. Something is very fishy with this chart..

me123 says

The bottom line, bobby, is that your whole narrative of "more guns = more homicides" is just crap. Your own charts prove it. Unfortunately, you want to play semantics with percentages, but sadly, it doesn't change the big false narrative.

Where did I say that? Making shit up as usual. The only false narrative is your favorite chart that claims increased gun ownership correlates to reduced gun homicides. The percentages don't work, not that you have a clue what percentages are. What semantics? Gun homicides have gone down 5.5% in 20 years while ownership has gone up 40%. Right from the chart you posted. It's only if you start with a statistical aberration in the early 90's that the claim of correlation can be made.

You have me confused with someone else. I'm not in favor of gun control. Never said a word in favor of gun control. If people want to spend their money on guns then more power to them, provided they are reasonably sane. I used to own and shoot but don't have time or interest any more. The only control I would like is for everyone to have a back round check for all sales, especially private sales, and all sales to be recorded in a federal data base. If the track disappears with you and the gun is used for a crime then you go to jail.

What I'm in favor of is keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. The people pipe lining guns to criminals should be in jail. Period. Any reason you and the NRA are so opposed to doing that? Feeling guilty about something maybe? Who have you sold guns to?

bob2356 says

What I'm in favor of is keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.

How many of the criminals in Chicago are buying their guns legally with background checks?

bob2356 says

The people pipe lining guns to criminals should be in jail.

Is this really a problem, what "percentage" of criminals buy their guns this way?

bob2356 says

From 1993 to 1998 firearms ownership went up 10% and firearms homicides dropped by 50%. Since 1998 firearms ownership has gone up over 50% yet firearms homicides have decreased 5%. Do you have some kind of point because there certainly isn't any correlation to be seen here.

Uh, I was going to respond
me123 says

The bottom line, bobby, is that your whole narrative of "more guns = more homicides" is just crap. Your own charts prove it. Unfortunately, you want to play semantics with percentages, but sadly, it doesn't change the big false narrative.

But it was already done.

At the very, very least, it suggests More Guns != More Homicide.

There are countries with far fewer firearms in private hands per capita that have a far higher homicide rate than the USA.

That’s funny
Booger says

US Population 1993: 260M
US Population 2015: 320M

Per capita, the civilian gun stock has roughly doubled since 1968, from one gun per every two persons to one gun per person.

:
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32842.pdf Page 14.

So: ~ 25-30% Larger Population, more Guns per capita, yet the Homicide Rate - AND the Firearm Homicide Rate - got cut just about in half.

me123 says

TwoScoopsMcGee says

So: ~ 25-30% Larger Population, more Guns per capita, yet the Homicide Rate - AND the Firearm Homicide Rate - got cut just about in half.

Ya know, you're really going to make bobby and dan cry (or go all out on personal attack and call you a liar).

God I love right wingnut math. Looks like thunderlips has been taking math lessons from cic. Perfect.

The population size is irrelevant to the per capita rate dumbasses.

Why doesn't this table match up to CICs chart? The numbers are different even though it's supposed to be from the same source. OMG if we start at 1998 The murder rate only drops 20%. Start in 1999 and it only drops 5%.

Why was the magic year 1993 chosen by the wingnut/gun nut crowd I wonder? Let's look at a little bigger time frame say 1960 on.



http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

Well look at that. The murder rate tripled while the number of guns was going up up up 1960 to 1993. But but but how can that be? The murder rate only goes down when the number of guns goes up. I will be waiting for an explanation from our 2 resident math geniuses on this. Not that anyone will ever see it.

Oh my more fun facts. At this point 3% of the people own over 50% of the guns. https://qz.com/1095899/gun-ownership-in-america-in-three-charts/ The number of households with guns has been dropping steadily since the magic 1993 date. But but but I was told murders went down because lots of people were buying guns to protect themselves. Bullshit. The big spike in gun ownership rate is actually a small number of people buying lots and lots of guns. Again an explanation from the calculus twins would be nice, but not going to happen.



The gun industry rakes in billions while saps like cic and thunderlips defend and promote them for free. If you look around the poker table and can't find the sucker it's you.

bob2356 says

The population size is irrelevant to the per capita rate dumbasses.

hahahahahah.

Not only did the population increase, the guns per capita in private hands increased as well.

The Gun Ownership by household contradicts manufacturer reported arms sales. However, there are more divorced female households today than before, that generally don't have firearms like married people that used to be far more common.

bob2356 says

Well look at that. The murder rate tripled while the number of guns was going up up up 1960 to 1993. But but but how can that be? The murder rate only goes down when the number of guns goes up. I will be waiting for an explanation from our 2 resident math geniuses on this. Not that anyone will ever see it.

God Bob, you're a math denialist.

Gun Ownership began exploding in the 80s in reaction the Baby-Boomer crime wave. Since the early 90s, the homicide rate has been tanking while the number of civilian firearms sold continues to grow.

Starting in the 90s, concealed firearms laws expanded, by the end of the 90s, the Assault Weapons Ban expired and was not renewed. In the late 2000s gun sales hit all-time records, there was even a .22LR shortage not long ago.

There's absolutely no doubt that the US has the most civilian firearms in the World, and that guns per capita has expanded over the past 40 years, and much of it over the past 25 years as gun laws become more permissive and SCOTUS trims excessive anti-2A laws, like in DC. And yet, our homicide is half of what it was 25 years ago.

We're #1 in the world by far for firearms ownership but nowhere near #1 in homicide.

bob2356 says

Why was the magic year 1993 chosen by the wingnut/gun nut crowd I wonder? Let's look at a little bigger time frame say 1960 on.

Why isn't the magic years of the 2000s chosen by gun control advocates? Is it because guns became even more plentiful, Concealed Carry laws even more permissive and widespread, yet homicides collapsed?

TwoScoopsMcGee says

bob2356 says

The population size is irrelevant to the per capita rate dumbasses.

hahahahahah.

Not only did the population increase, the guns per capita in private hands increased as well.

The Gun Ownership by household contradicts manufacturer reported arms sales. However, there are more divorced female households today than before, that generally don't have firearms like married people that used to be far more common.

Like I said the population increase is irrelevant to the per capita number. It's not a hard concept to grasp. Get another math lesson from CIC and I'm sure you will have it. Math concept that is beyond you number 2 is that the number of households can decrease while the guns per capita increases. It means fewer people are buying guns but buying more of them. This stuff really isn't hard. What is it about rate changes that is simply impossible for you and CIC to grasp.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Gun Ownership began exploding in the 80s in reaction the Baby-Boomer crime wave. Since the early 90s, the homicide rate has been tanking while the number of civilian firearms sold continues to grow.

Starting in the 90s, concealed firearms laws expanded, by the end of the 90s, the Assault Weapons Ban expired and was not renewed. In the late 2000s gun sales hit all-time records, there was even a .22LR shortage not long ago.

There's absolutely no doubt that the US has the most civilian firearms in the World, and that guns per capita has expanded over the past 40 years, and much of it over the past 25 years as gun laws become more permissive and SCOTUS trims excessive anti-2A laws, like in DC. And yet, our homicide is half of what it was 25 years ago.

We're #1 in the world by far for firearms ownership but nowhere near #1 in homicide.

Show me where gun ownership exploded in the 80's. It's not in any of the charts anyone has posted. The charts show a nice steady climb. Lie number 1.
Show me where the assault ban made any difference in gun ownership rates. Lie number 2.

Let's summarize here. Guns sales and ownership rates have climbed steadily since the 40's. From the 60's to 1993 murder rates tripled. From 1993 to 2015 murder rates dropped by 50%. In your pink sky world that represent a correlation between gun ownership rates and murder rates. HaHaHaHaHa.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

bob2356 says

Why was the magic year 1993 chosen by the wingnut/gun nut crowd I wonder? Let's look at a little bigger time frame say 1960 on.

Why isn't the magic years of the 2000s chosen by gun control advocates? Is it because guns became even more plentiful, Concealed Carry laws even more permissive and widespread, yet homicides collapsed?

Murder rates went for 3.6 to 3.4 in the 2000's. A 5% decrease. This is your idea of collapsed? HaHaHaHa times 2. Go ahead, provide any evidence of any kind correlating concealed carry permits with the homicide rates. Grasping for anything at this point aren't you?

I don't favor gun control. Find anywhere I've posted in favor of gun control I just don't favor bullshit in defence of gun ownership. The only gun control I want is tracking of exactly were guns go from legal owner to a criminal. Then put the person who sold a gun to a criminal in jail. Why would any responsible gun owner (like CIC alleges he is) be opposed to that.? Any reason at that you can think of? Why would you oppose it?

Don't even bother to post the tired bullshit that criminals steal guns. It would just prove once again you have no credibility of any kind.

BOOM.

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That's growth. Here's the estimated number:


Tracking sales using Federal Background Checks:


How's that Homicide Rate doin' in comparison? In must be exploding with all these arms sales.


What would really be beneficial is if we could fix 60% of Homicides that are caused by 13% of the population, by getting that 13% closer to the homicide rate of the other 87%

Here's Gallup's Poll of Households... in contrast to the other one favored by the anti-2A Fake News:


No big moves here.

How is the Authoritarian Left doing convincing people guns are the problem?

TwoScoopsMcGee says

The Gun Ownership by household contradicts manufacturer reported arms sales.

Exactly, bobby thinks his chart of ownership is accurate, like people tell Gallup when they call how many guns they own.

Notice no Leftie has dared offer an opinion on HOW to effectively ban firearms, because they know short of warantless house-to-house searches, they really don't have any feasible solution.

And those most likely to voluntarily cooperate are also the least likely to have committed violent crime with those arms.

Don't expect the Jamals, Leroys, and Shaquans who commit 57% of the homicides in the US, to be lining up at 6AM the freezing Chicago morning of January 2nd of the year the law is effective to turn in their mostly stolen or black market .25 Autos and .38 Snub-Noses at the local Chicago PD Station.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

BOOM

Very nice job with those charts and data. Sadly bobby still won't understand.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

How's that Homicide Rate doin' in comparison? In must be exploding with all these arms sales.

You are correct. Homicide rate exploded with all the arms sales 1970 to 1993. Gun sales go up, murders go up. Then gun sales go up, murders go down. Thunderlips says this is correlation. gallup poll more accurate? (the same gallup poll you called fake news so often, that gallup poll? but wait CIC says people lie to gallup. you guys really need to get the same page). Weasel much? What happened to you calling a 5% drop in murder rate a collapse? Crickets chirping on that one. Yearly growth? The yearly growth didn't pick up until 2010 which is 10 years after the murder rate dropped. Estimated by NCIS checks? Doesn't go up until 2008, 8 years after the murder rate drops. This is correlation somehow? You guys really are a joke

me123 says

please post the chart that shows how many legal gun owners are selling their guns to criminals.

Been posted time and time again. Been proven time and time again. You have forgotten time and time again. You will certainly be waiting a very long time if you can't remember anything. Sorry but there is nothing I can do about your Alzheimers getting worse and worse. The phrase you really need to know at this point is geriatric specialist.

me123 says

bob2356 says

You are correct. Homicide rate exploded with all the arms sales 1970 to 1993. Gun sales go up, murders go up. Then gun sales go up, murders go down.

Oh bobby, so sad. Here's a hint, gun sales go up EVERY year and that adds to the cumulative total owned, which means more total available, and many of the past years have seen record additional sales annually. THE number of actual people killed annually has gone DOWN. What don't you understand about that data?

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So sad. The number of actual people killed annually actually went UP for 25 years while gun sales went up EVERY year before the number of people killed annually started going down. What don't you understand about that data? Are the gun/god nuts now claiming the guns and gun murders didn't exist before 1993?

me123 says

but prove me wrong by reposting it.

Why bother you won't remember it tomorrow or even a couple hours from now.

murder is illegal
mass shootings are illegal
machine guns are illegal

What else should we make illegal that will cause criminals to suddenly care about laws? That's a thing about the left, they mastered the skill of ignoring reality long ago. Only know how to pound their chests and make demands, but can never get anything figured out or done.

bob2356 says

You are correct. Homicide rate exploded with all the arms sales 1970 to 1993

You have a chart for that? I don't. Only since 1986. Gun sale growth went up in the last few years of the homicide rate increase; the homicide rate nationally began increasing in the late 1960s.

The more Guns = more homicides is completely wrong for this century, especially.

What else happened in the 60s that might have led to more homicide?

Still no specifics from the Anti-2A crowd on how they would restrict firearms effectively.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

You have a chart for that? I don't. Only since 1986. Gun sale growth went up in the last few years of the homicide rate increase; the homicide rate nationally began increasing in the late 1960s.

You posted the chart of murders from 1960 on for christ sakes. Don't you know what you've posted? I posted the data also but in a list. Here is is again. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm . Murders tripled 1960 to 1993. Go look.Or look at your own frigging chart. The chart of the number of guns in the us since 1942 is already posted also. The number of guns went up up up during the period as did murders. Which makes you and dimbulbs claim that an increasing number guns drives down the murders total bullshit.

There was a small blip in 92/93 of less than 2 million new guns a year above the previous years added to the 250 million guns already in circulation at the time. Are you seriously suggesting that additional gun sales of 0.8% a year for a couple years drove the murder rate down? You want to ride that horse? Really? I know you guys absolutely suck at math but that's beyond absurd. Besides the murder rate was already decreasing by then. Gun sales actually started spiking in 2009-2010, 10 years after the murder rate flat lined. This is all from your own charts, don't you look at them?

Give it up, there is no way to support this turkey.

me123 says

me123 says

please post the chart that shows how many legal gun owners are selling their guns to criminals.

Hey bobby boy, got that chart yet?

Democrats just want to use this tragedy for personal political gain of some sort. Nothing else to it, everything else is story for the gullible supporters of the Democratic party.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

There is NO link between the increasing prevalence of firearms and the decreasing homicide rate.

Then why did you claim there was a link for so long? I was beginning to think you were the poster boy for the failings of the american educational system. Can you let ironman know this now?

TwoScoopsMcGee says

Bob, do you want more gun restrictions?

No I don't want more gun restrictions. Depending on what you define as restriction. But I don't want this bullshit about increasing numbers of guns reducing the murder rate used as a wedge for the NRA to destroy any type of rational rules about gun ownership. Look at Wisconsin. They proposed carry with the stipulation of needing to take a class. The NRA (aka the gun manufacturers) went apeshit and carpet bombed the state with a blitz of propaganda about how having to take a class was dismantling the second amendment. Absurd.

What I do want is to track guns. Strawmen buyers are providing criminals with the majority of their guns. They should be in jail as should the legit gun owner who sold a gun to them no questions asked. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/guns.html You and ironman can look up many more articles and studies that say the same thing. There is this really cool new program called google.com. Check it out. Just type where do criminals get their guns and lots of stuff to read comes up. Really it's true.

My house is gun free as well, and I guarantee if one of you sissy fucking Betas came around here looking for shit, you’d get tossed out on your ass with a mouthful. That sign is dumb.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

But yeah, I'm a brain damaged liar who denies the reality that Democrats don't want to ban guns.

Yes, God forbid that a hunter can't go out and kill a deer with an assault rifle. Just how the Founding Fathers intended.

me123 says

What exactly is a "assault rifle"? Can you explain what it is for me?

There is no set definition per se. Congress defined it in the 1994 ban as this:



Others have other definitions such as this:

"The technical definition of an assault rifle consists of four requirements:
1 It is a shoulder mounted weapon
2. It is magazine fed.
3. It is intermediate power.
4. It is selective fire."

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-definition-of-assault-rifle