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In reply to the discussion: Man Taking Selfies With Gun Fatally Shoots Himself [View all]Straw Man
(6,623 posts)84. Any way you slice it ...
The graph you posted shows a gun homicide rate stagnant since 1998.
Not "steadily declining for several decades" as you claimed. And no, the number/rate has not decreased since 2010, where your graph stops.
Not "steadily declining for several decades" as you claimed. And no, the number/rate has not decreased since 2010, where your graph stops.
... the rate is half what it was in 1993. Are you attributing that to gun control?
As far as how we fix it, let's look at what the other developed nations on Earth are doing to keep their number so low and TRY THAT!
Whom should we emulate? I hear a lot from gun controllers about the "UK model." How about the Czech Republic? They have a lower homicide rate than the UK but are far more "liberal" in regard to firearms. Switzerland? Sweden? They all seem to more successful and keeping the murders down. Or is it only gun murders that attract your concern?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
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Would you support subsidizing your proposed training requirement for low income people?
Marengo
Mar 2016
#18
You forgot the most important one of all... TREAT *EVERY* FIREARM AS IF IT WERE LOADED!
Ghost in the Machine
Mar 2016
#87
Nope. Same stats. Same numbers. Just a lot of intentional misinterpretation, distortion and lying.
tabasco
Mar 2016
#77
thankfully he took himself before he accidently shot someone or as the media would put it
saturnsring
Mar 2016
#6
Just like you shouldn't answer the telephone while ironing clothes with a hot iron.
Nye Bevan
Mar 2016
#7