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Originally Posted by InformedConsent
They don't. The facts I posted come from the CDC. They actually DO track deaths via all means. I'm sorry you were misled by a faulty "study."
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*What your first graph measures is that gun homicides have been decreasing as the amount of guns per person has gone up between 1994 and 2013.
*What your second graph measures is that deaths by firearms have also declined since the 1990s.
*What your third graph measures is that nonfatal firearm victimizations have also declined since the 1990s, and all of these graphs have happened as the average number of guns per person has gone up.
That's just a correlation though, because ALLMOST ALL CRIME has been decreasing, so that stuff may or may not have anything to do with guns. Or maybe it's all crime. I'm not sure. I just know most of it is.
And I don't know why you would just insta-ignore those studies I mentioned, without explaining why. Just because there's a correlation, that doesn't necessarily mean causation.
Here are the FBI crime rate statistics. They've been dropping since 1993:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s..._1993-2012.xls