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In reply to the discussion: 7 dead, 3 hurt in university shooting [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)41. Violent crime is not the same as gun crime.
Violent crime rates include beatings by hand, with sticks, with knives, with machetes; rapes (with or without weapons); all kinds of stuff. Violent crime rates are tied more than anything to the size of the male population 16-24.
So showing this chart does not prove that "gun crimes" are at historically low levels.
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I'll simplify. If sick people are getting guns, then there needs to be someway of identifying sick
Snake Alchemist
Apr 2012
#54
the nation is awash in guns and in people advocating gun toting Hollywood Cowboyism.
Warren Stupidity
Apr 2012
#16