Mass shooting Las Vegas

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Rab said:

sc94597 said:

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.  

 

Most likely related to the fact the US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the World, the US is the closest thing the World has to a prison state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate 

Actually the incarceration of non-violent drug users likely adds to the homicide rate rather than solves it. It ruins the lives of millions of human beings and keeps them in a life of drug cartels and gang warfare. If the U.S took the policies that Portugal and Switzerland implemented, our homicide rate would probably half over a generation. In fact, the U.S homicide rate was in line with other western countries until the prohibition era saw it spike (first large-scale organized crime) and never drop too low since. 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-drugs/swiss-drug-policy-should-serve-as-model-experts-idUSTRE69O3VI20101025

https://news.vice.com/article/ungass-portugal-what-happened-after-decriminalization-drugs-weed-to-heroin