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In reply to the discussion: Video games with guns are a problem, [View all]Eko
(7,246 posts)43. Maybe not.
FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low
The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000. To find a lower homicide rate, we must travel back to 1957 when the total homicide rate hit 4.0 per 100,000.
https://mises.org/wire/fbi-us-homicide-rate-51-year-low
I see what you are saying, but the numbers dont really add up to it. I think its just a byproduct of the news becoming more national and global that we perceive that things are getting worse.
The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000. To find a lower homicide rate, we must travel back to 1957 when the total homicide rate hit 4.0 per 100,000.
https://mises.org/wire/fbi-us-homicide-rate-51-year-low
I see what you are saying, but the numbers dont really add up to it. I think its just a byproduct of the news becoming more national and global that we perceive that things are getting worse.
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Japan has all those same video games, plus have had a far longer history of violent porn
mythology
Mar 2018
#21
And South Korea has some incredibly violent films that get heavily cut for here
Blue_Adept
Mar 2018
#24
lol, you should keep a Desert Eagle around and let them break their wrist with it..
EX500rider
Mar 2018
#46