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You left out this year. Murders are up 42.4%. Whoops.
That means DC is trending to be on par with the murder reduction for the entire country.
Annual murders bounce around. Murders are up, but from a base that is down 80% from the peak. Other crime is also down over that period. Now that the Supreme Court has authorized home ownership of handguns, crime should be down even more, but it's up????
Annual murders bounce around. Murders are up, but from a base that is down 80% from the peak. Other crime is also down over that period. Now that the Supreme Court has authorized home ownership of handguns, crime should be down even more, but it's up????
The real world doesn't fit your RW narrative.
It seems you've missed the point again.
DC homicide is down over that period, sure. So is everywhere else. Some places more, some places less. All without handgun bans.
So by all means, pretend the gun ban helped. I wore a blue shirt one day during that time period, so that probably helped too.
Hell, It don't matter, The thieves and criminals are sitting in places of power and nowadays crime is committed legally against people.
At some point in the future, I will have put on my sponge bob t-shirt unaware of a new law banning the offensive said image and they will put me in prison. Somebody will go through my trash and find that I hadn't recycled and they will put the cuffs on me. Somebody will find out that I believe in laws of morality and there I go. God forbid that I should become a business owner and the government finds out my opinions. At least they are going after those dairy farmers on the homeland security watchlist, those terrorists dared to put too much money in the bank at one time and the government wants everything they own. God forbid you own a gun in case you have some crazy idea of protecting yourself, call the police stupid, they will be there in at least 15 min.
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Maybe it isn't about the childish notion of "blame".
Maybe it's about solving the problem.
...and that problem would be criminals and the mentally unstable.
Over half of all gun deaths are from suicides, But does anyone think we could end all those suicides if we could somehow gather up and destroy all guns?
I don't even live in my world most of the time, Damned spirits falling from heaven and such, they think they own me but I got plans to get rid of them, yeah, thas the ticket, I will show them!
I think you are skirting the issue when you are comparing countries that have banned private citizens from having guns.
What difference does it make what country it is, or that countries population?
Simply put, those countries have proven removing guns from private hands, works.
If it can work in one country, it can work in any country.
The problem with doing any disarming in this country is spelled out in three words, NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION, and that is why it has never been done in this country.
Politicians who are funded by nra, are not going to go up against them, and my guess would be All except Donald Trump are , and always have been funded by nra.
I didn't know that $9,900 was considered as funding. I checked on newly elected Rep. Tom Cotton https://www.opensecrets.org/politici...?cid=N00033363 . He raised and spent $14.3M in his campaign. So the NRA funded .069% of his campaign. $9,900 does not buy a radio ad in Little Rock.
We only "blame" those who hoard guns and/or use to kill people and pets.
None of us are "anti-gun." When we say "pro-gun," it refers to people who cherish their guns more than *actual lives.* There are way too many of them. (But Ironically, they deeply care about clumps of cells in a uterus and declare it "like.)
We are merely suggesting that some regulations be put in place to at least *cut down* on gun deaths. It is the pro-gun group who are against this and they are nuts for being so.
Let's see if you change your mind about common sense gun laws when someone you love is killed by one. And no, the solution is not just to "have your loved one carry a gun." Gun nuts never seem to understand that there are many possible outcomes in that case and in most of them, your loved ones would still die from a gun.
What is our definition of hoarding? 1, 2, 20, more?
My sister would have died due to the use of crack and other drugs if cancer had not taken her first. I still am in favor of abolishing all of the unconstitutional federal drug laws. Feelings should not be considered when enacting or applying the law.
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