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Our murder rate isn't high because legal gun owners are out killing people. It's all gang-related. So to answer your question: none of the above. It's demograp
by jaywalk 6y ago
Our murder rate isn't high because legal gun owners are out killing people. It's all gang-related.
So to answer your question: none of the above. It's demographics.
- daemoens 6y agoThe majority of these prominent mass shootings we've seen so far have been using legal guns.
- leetcrew 6y agomass shootings are a very small fraction of gun homicides that receive disproportionate coverage. if mass shootings stopped overnight, you would barely notice a change in the US homicide rate.
- maxerickson 6y agohttps://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-10.xls https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-... There's a lot of unrecorded relationships, but family and intimate partners make up a pretty big chunk of the homicides in the US.
- jaywalk 6y agoThat's a funny way of noting that Acquaintance, Stranger and Unknown make up nearly 80% of the homicides.
- maxerickson 6y ago20% is more accurately described as 'big chunk' than any argument you can make for 'all gang related'.