Mass shooting Las Vegas

[Pemalite]

sc94597 said:

Pemalite said:

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.  

 

A Homicide is any act of one human killing another.

I am strictly talking about massacres. I.E. One human killing lots of other humans.