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Insidb on 04 April 2018
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o_O.Q said:
Insidb said:

SAD:

 

1: "One is an annual report by the FBI of serious crimes reported to police in approximately 18,000 jurisdictions around the country. The other is an annual survey of more than 90,000 households conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which asks Americans ages 12 and older whether they were victims of crime, regardless of whether they reported those crimes to the police."

2: "But the downward trend in gun ownership remains consistent across the national polls. According to Gallup, gun ownership has fallen by about 10 percentage points since its peak in 1993. The General Social Survey shows a 20-point drop since the mid-1970s."

3: And, RIGHT AFTER your FBI excerpt: "But the declining rates of gun ownership across three major national surveys suggest a different explanation: that most of the rise in gun purchases is driven by existing gun owners stocking up, rather than by people buying their first gun. A Washington Post analysis last year found that the average American gun owner now owns approximately eight firearms, double the number in the 1990s."

4: More evidence of concentrated fun ownership: https://qz.com/1095899/gun-ownership-in-america-in-three-charts/

5: More surveys that show decreasing gun ownership in the US: http://www.researchscape.com/library/public-opinion/gun-ownership


You can try to cherry-pick, but everyone else can just read the articles and see the desperate attempts at deflection.

 

http://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx

 

if you were to plot a line of best fit through this graph it'd be almost horizontal...

it shows that in the last couple years gun ownership has been increasing and continues to increase...

hopefully if the upwards trend continues we can get back up to 50

 

what i'm not seeing here though is an indication of crime increasing with the implementation of gun control laws as we see in the uk

 

btw i didn't deny that violent crime is decreasing

I already posted links to 4+ polls that show a decreasing trendline and will provide no further data or entertain any further unqualified disputations.

You posted the "US doesn't have a gun problem" propaganda, and, again, any other reader will see right through this deflection.

o_O.Q said:
Insidb said:

I'm calling you a troll, because you publicly revel in being disliked and sowing discord.

That's what trolls do; they make inflammatory claims and then openly celebrate them.

i take offense to this

Then it would be wise for you to not publicly post, "i'm flattered," in response to "you embody everything that is wrong with the views of a human being in my opinion" or "lol don't make me laugh," in response to the same person subsequently saying, "I'm not gonna try to talk sense into you."

The behavior is clearly antagonist, a celebration thereof, and definitely against community guidelines.