fish82;1440076 wrote:They'd be welcome to do that, as it illustrates that the current laws on the books are working as intended.
I found it most interesting that 56% of the country thinks that gun violence is on the rise, when the opposite is true.
I acknowledged way back at the beginning of this thread, before these neat charts came out, that gun violence/homicides in the United States and in the developed world was on a general downward trend. That has never been in dispute by me.
However, per 100,000 persons, as we've
already covered is considerably higher in the United States than other OECD countries (save Russia to satisfy HitsRus) despite that overall downward trend. In those western countries that have better rates than us, they have stricter, national firearms regulation regimes.
The only thing new from this data is that it is indeed interesting that people think gun violence is going up when as a whole the trend is downward. If I were to venture a guess...I imagine the highly publicized mass shootings contribute to this thought when we have last 3rd page news gun deaths.
The point still remains; Other countries have tangibly less gun deaths...whether by mass shootings; little kids killing their step moms; gang members killing for drugs; terrorists killing cops; little brothers shooting their little sisters....and they don't seem all that much worse off/less free in the aggregate despite more strict firearms regulation. Might as well at least try to make sure we make it harder for bad guys to get guns if we're going to live with little brothers shooting their little sisters, etc.
