The catch-all gun thread

[TheBeardedDude]

Aussie violent crime stats since 96 (where all the data I can find seems to limit itself to): http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/violent%20crime.html
It would seem that violent crime isn't declining everywhere...

http://www.aic.gov.au/statistics/homicide.html
States the declining firearm use in murder trend began in 63, rather than in 96

Stats penguin awaaaaaay!

There is no decreasing trend since '93. I believe there was legislation in '93 as well, I don't recall from the last time I looked.

Violent crime rate is up since '96, but that is misleading in at least one sense, because was it up in '96 or down in '96 and the rates are lower now than prior to that? That website has a lot of good data (I have trudged through it before), but it can be tedious to tease it all out.

In any event, while the violent crime rate (aka, assaults) is up, deaths and deaths by firearm are down. I would not mind living in a society where violent crime resulted in injury instead of death. Especially if we could curb the mass shootings.

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And I said "globally" implying that if one were to look at the average violent crime rate for all developed nations over the last few decades, more are going down than up.