Mass shooting Las Vegas

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Pemalite said:

Lawlight said:

Permalite, Australia has 18M people back then. 18M v 323M. It's common sense that it's nowhere near the same. Australia is massive landwise but the majority of people are concentrated in the capital cities or around them.

Population is irrellevant.
The fact is... The USA went from 1 gun for every 2 people 50 years ago... To an almost 1:1 ratio of guns to people today. That's right, there are roughly 300 million guns.
Guess what? Gun violence hasn't reduced. It has increased, that is a fact.

 

This is wrong. 

Homicides (including gun homicides) are at their lowest point  in the last fifty years, after a sharp spike due to socio-economic factors (a young population + economic stagflation.) 

Below is a chart since the 90's that compares the guns per capita vs. gun homicide rate over a twenty year span.