MikeRox said:
Why would you expect homicide rates to drop? The only thing that would drop (and has done) is the number of massacres involving guns. The things that still happen in the US on a regular basis. Though to put that graph in perspective, even at the peak in 2003 (which is the clear distorted fact the graph is trying to present) that was a homicide rate of 1.8 per 100,000 to the US's 2013 rate of 4.5. Currently the UK is at 1.0. (if that graph continued, it would be lower in 2013 than any other part of the graph) Isn't the "more guns" argument meant to be that once you ban guns everybody gets shot and crime spirals out of control because there are no good guys with guns to shoot the bad guys? |
If you're trying to ban guns, then homicide better drop! Otherwise, what is the point? If there's no actual jusitification for removing freedoms, then why should that be what people want?
I didn't intentionally cut the graph short, it was just a report published in 2011. If you have something more up to date, I'd be interested in reading it.
