(December 3, 2015 at 4:53 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote:(December 3, 2015 at 3:14 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The overall murder rate in the US is at an all time low. Also there was a time when Britain had similar gun laws to the US, pre-1964. When they enacted their gun laws the murder rate didn't drop, it stayed the same and slowly rose through the 1970s. The UK has always had lower crime than the US, even when they gun laws were the same.
Gun deaths UK/USA UK 0.26, USA 10.5 deaths per 100,000 population per year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co...death_rate
Yea, an all time low, that is like choosing between the religious bigotry of the 1950s and the Witch hunts. Nobody is claiming we have it worse, but that doesn't preclude improvement.
The reason it rises laws or not, is RATIO of population and economics. The planet also had a smaller population. To talk about rise is bullshit. More of anything, no matter subject is going to make management more complex. The reason we have more gun violence is because we have more humans and more guns. That still is not an excuse to reduce gun death. We can manage objects a lot better than we can humans.
