Sweaty_Conclusion_80

Sweaty_Conclusion_80 t1_ixk4fom wrote

Sane people also recognize that we’ll never have zero homicides and that trending downwards in violent crime/homicides over decades is a positive thing. It also hurts your argument that “guns are the problem” when that downward trend is accompanied by the opposite trend in gun ownership. Clearly the guns themselves are not the issue or you’d them move in parallel, not opposites.

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Sweaty_Conclusion_80 t1_ixi5l7f wrote

Gun sales in 2016 were hitting highs, we’re a few years past that now so the numbers today are higher: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/05/gun-sales-hit-new-record-ahead-of-new-obama-gun-restrictions/

Violent crime including murder today overall is lower now than in the past 30-50 years: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/31/violent-crime-is-a-key-midterm-voting-issue-but-what-does-the-data-say/

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