Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]acalix
(81 posts)"It would be moreso that guns became less available to potential criminals, like suiciding father killing family, because father decided earlier not to become a gun owner.
And the percentage of gun related violent crime to total violent crime DID decline. "
You're committing a category error. You're looking at ALL gun related violent crime. Which includes robberies, assaults and threats.
You are not looking at firearm homicides, the percentage of guns homicides over all firearm homicides remained pretty much the same. Thus the proportion of firearms in homicides was not impacted. When criminologists measure the impact of firearms on homicide they use the percentage of guns used in overall homicides, not rates.
Furthermore all violent crime (including non-gun related crime) declined during the same period (what does gun ownership have to do with the decline in rapes or non-gun robberies?)
You are hopeless.