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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.
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.
Per capita, the civilian gun stock has roughly doubled since 1968, from one gun per every two persons to one gun per person.:
TwoScoopsMcGee saysSo: ~ 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).
The population size is irrelevant to the per capita rate dumbasses.
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.
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.
bob2356 saysThe 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.
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 saysWhy 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?
The Gun Ownership by household contradicts manufacturer reported arms sales.
BOOM
How's that Homicide Rate doin' in comparison? In must be exploding with all these arms sales.
please post the chart that shows how many legal gun owners are selling their guns to criminals.
bob2356 saysfYou 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?
but prove me wrong by reposting it.
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.
me123 saysplease post the chart that shows how many legal gun owners are selling their guns to criminals.
There is NO link between the increasing prevalence of firearms and the decreasing homicide rate.
Bob, do you want more gun restrictions?
But yeah, I'm a brain damaged liar who denies the reality that Democrats don't want to ban guns.
What exactly is a "assault rifle"? Can you explain what it is for me?
How about the 2016 Dem platform?"To build on the success of the lifesaving Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, we will expand and strengthen background checks and close dangerous loopholes in our current laws; repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) to revoke the dangerous legal immunity protections gun makers and sellers now enjoy; and keep weapons of war—such as assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines (LCAM's)—off our streets."
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/papers_pdf/117717.pdf (Page 39)
When the Assault Rifle ban expired, did the homicide rate go up or down?
But yeah, I'm a brain damaged liar who denies the reality that Democrats don't want to ban guns.
As an aside, an”assault weapon” is a phrase made up by the anti-gun crowd to confuse the issue of what a weapon actually is.
bob2356 saysme123 says
As an aside, an”assault weapon” is a phrase made up by the anti-gun crowd to confuse the issue of what a weapon actually is.
Pretty amazing that the federal government was able to have an assault weapon ban when cic says there isn't any assault weapons. How did they do that?
and did you see the YYUUGGEE number of decreased homicides because of it. Worked well, didn't it?
To OP ... seems very clear what the majority of the population is asking for:
http://news.gallup.com/poll/220637/americans-widely-support-tighter-regulations-gun-sales.aspx
It's pretty simple zzyyxx:
Dems want to close the loopholes by which such shooters can very easily obtain guns.
So tell us, Joey the TROLL, where did this guy buy his evil "assault weapon"?
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And what would you be willing to trade for it?
I have a proposal, but I'll hold on to it for now.
UPDATE: Please refrain from virtue signalling in this thread - we have plenty of that in other threads related to LV shooting already.