orogenicman
Darwin was a pastafarian
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I'd bet the Treasury you are completely wrong.'gun violence death rate' is a false and pointless stat. I dont care how you die - gun hammer or knife - you are just as dead. Does banning guns decrease homicides:The rampant possession of firearms in this country has taken, and continues to take a terrible toll in lives. Now, unless you can come up with a viable solution that addresses that toll, I will continue to hold that we need to get rid of them altogether. But hey, that's just me.
It continues to take a toll primarily of black and Mexican gangster lives. When has Obama ever seriously addressed the problem in Chicago, his old riding? He doesn't give a damn about black gangsters killing one another, nor do the democrats. They take the same attitude as the Mexican government regarding the cartel war along our southern border that's claimed at least 70,000 lives in six years: "Let them kill each, they're drug cartel criminals. They don't matter."
Oh, you mean where Chicago has cut its gun violence death rate by more than half since 1994?
As for Mexico, are you suggesting that we invade Mexico to rid it of its cartels? Good luck with that.
Doesn't look like it does anything. I will note that your chart does not mention anything at all about the fact that the 90 were VERY violent and the entire nation has been on a down trend.
We don't know if banning all guns would significantly reduce the homicide rate because as a nation we've never tried it. But I'd bet the bank that it would.
In any case it wont happen. There is no getting 300M guns out of circulation. Canada tried a registry of long guns and had to quit because non compliance was so high.
Of course it won't happen. The gun manufacturers, with the assistance of the NRA, long ago let the genie out of the bottle.