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They are not. See stats.
by spiritplumber 13y ago
They are not. See stats.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoDidn't see stats in the article; just lots of strawmen and irresponsible summaries of crimes.
- DanBC 13y agoCrime, especially violent crime, is dropping in most of US.
- ctdonath 13y agoViolent gun-related crime dropped about 50% from 1993-2009. Thru the same period, gun ownership increased about 50%. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/ http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-...
- djdj123 13y agoThis generalization gets bandied about too much. Crime trends and patterns are highly local. I'm sure violent crime is dropping in many places, but in other places it's spiraling out of control, for example, South Chicago, East Oakland, Detroit. I think it's a mistake to throw those places in the same basket as a small city in Ohio (unless it really has similar crime stats).
- DanBC 13y agoDo you have crime stats for those areas please?
- logfromblammo 13y agoThough it should be noted that the publicly-available statistic with the highest correlation with the drop in violent crimes is... drumroll, please... the drop in lead contamination. Yes, America is safer primarily (presumptively) because it banned lead-containing antiknock molecules in gasoline and banned lead-containing pigments in paint. The dispersion of remaining lead contamination out of the urban environment over the years so closely tracks the drop in violence that it almost makes one believe the correlation is due to causation. Almost. Unfortunately, experimental confirmation would be grossly unethical.