Gun Crime Plummets...

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[koalabear]

We know why people are confused but this is probably why only 4% of the people think we need more gun controls:


Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, says study

By Emily Alpert
May 7, 2013, 12:46 p.m.
Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.

Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.

In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically since the turn of the millennium.

The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released Wednesday. Gun crimes that weren’t fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.

The bureau also looked into non-fatal violent crimes. Few victims of such crimes -- less than 1% -- reported using a firearm to defend themselves.

Despite the remarkable drop in gun crime, only 12% of Americans surveyed said gun crime had declined compared with two decades ago, according to Pew, which surveyed more than 900 adults this spring. Twenty-six percent said it had stayed the same, and 56% thought it had increased.

It’s unclear whether media coverage is driving the misconception that such violence is up. The mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., were among the news stories most closely watched by Americans last year, Pew found. Crime has also been a growing focus for national newscasts and morning network shows in the past five years but has become less common on local television news.

“It’s hard to know what’s going on there,” said D’Vera Cohn, senior writer at the Pew Research Center. Women, people of color and the elderly were more likely to believe that gun crime was up than men, younger adults or white people. The center plans to examine crime issues more closely later this year.

Though violence has dropped, the United States still has a higher murder rate than most other developed countries, though not the highest in the world, the Pew study noted. A Swiss research group, the Small Arms Survey, says that the U.S. has more guns per capita than any other country.

Experts debate why overall crime has fallen, attributing the drop to all manner of causes, such as the withering of the crack cocaine market and surging incarceration rates.

Some researchers have even linked dropping crime to reduced lead in gasoline, pointing out that lead can cause increased aggression and impulsive behavior in exposed children.

The victims of gun killings are overwhelmingly male and disproportionately black, according to Bureau of Justice Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Compared with other parts of the country, the South had the highest rates of gun violence, including both murders and other violent gun crimes.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gun-crimes-pew-report-20130507,0,3022693.story

 

[Busybody]

background check STATISTICS

 

[BoyNextDoor]

not a mystery

 

[Busybody]

 

[koalabear]

not a mystery

What about 2009, 10, 11 12, 13. Nice OLD chart.

 

[koalabear]

Media's Anti-Gun Narrative Destroyed By Justice Dept. Report

Don't look for a new Justice Department report about American gun violence to receive any serious media coverage over the coming days, or ever. According to the report from the department's Bureau of Statistics, every argument the media and the left are currently making to push for new restrictions on our Second Amendment civil rights, are made up of anti-science nonsense. This report not only proves the media wrong, it proves the NRA right.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journa...-Report-Destroys-Medias-Gun-Control-Narrative

Less than one-percent of state prisoners caught with a gun purchased it at a gun show.

 

[Sean]

Maybe people think gun crime is up because the NRA keep fear mongering and telling people they need an arsenal to protect themselves from the big bad black man that's going to break into your house and rape your white women?

 

[KingOrfeo]

not a mystery

Not much of a solution, either.

 

[Sean Renaud]

What's wrong with that plan Orfeo? No amount of taxes is too much if it keeps blacks and browns off the streets and this has the added benefit of creating jobs and decreasing the minority vote. They can also be used to keep our nation clean. I'm honestly not seeing what the downside is.

 

[koalabear]

Maybe people think gun crime is up because the NRA keep fear mongering and telling people they need an arsenal to protect themselves from the big bad black man that's going to break into your house and rape your white women?

Nope.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Nope.

What do you mean "Nope". Of course the fear mongering is responsible for the difference between public opinion and reality.

The best part is - the people are telling the assholes that would not vote for the background check legislation that they are doomed

 

[JackLuis]

What's wrong with that plan Orfeo? No amount of taxes is too much if it keeps blacks and browns off the streets and this has the added benefit of creating jobs and decreasing the minority vote. They can also be used to keep our nation clean. I'm honestly not seeing what the downside is.

The Cost of Prisons and prison workers pensions in California, actually.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The Cost of Prisons and prison workers pensions in California, actually.

Won't need em once we put enough of them in jail to turn the state Red. Then we can just execute.

 

[JackLuis]

Won't need em once we put enough of them in jail to turn the state Red. Then we can just execute.

.38 Spcl is on sale at Midway, I hear.

 

[koalabear]

What do you mean "Nope". Of course the fear mongering is responsible for the difference between public opinion and reality.

The best part is - the people are telling the assholes that would not vote for the background check legislation that they are doomed

They already have background checks, obviously you are stupid and don't realize it.

 

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[koalabear]

Where do these illiterate turds come from???

Bloomberg Boys, they all wear bloomers.

 

[Wrong Element]

Hmmmm. Talking about social conditions in America improving during a Democratic administration is usually my territory.

 

[koalabear]

Hmmmm. Talking about social conditions in America improving during a Democratic administration is usually my territory.

^^still looking for Weiner.

 

[dan_c00000]

As always vette and his special friend koala don't bother to actually read what's reported. Here's some highlights of what they missed:

However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.

Though violence has dropped, the United States still has a higher murder rate than most other developed countries, though not the highest in the world, the Pew study noted. A Swiss research group, the Small Arms Survey, says that the U.S. has more guns per capita than any other country.

Experts debate why overall crime has fallen, attributing the drop to all manner of causes, such as the withering of the crack cocaine market and surging incarceration rates.

What's also great about having a non-working right wing brain is to bash government and it's agencies until you can find a statistic that you like. Then it's all fine and dandy.

 

[koalabear]

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weiner showed up!!

 

[Colonel Hogan]

As always vette and his special friend koala don't bother to actually read what's reported. Here's some highlights of what they missed:

However, guns still remain the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted. Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S. were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.

Though violence has dropped, the United States still has a higher murder rate than most other developed countries, though not the highest in the world, the Pew study noted. A Swiss research group, the Small Arms Survey, says that the U.S. has more guns per capita than any other country.

Experts debate why overall crime has fallen, attributing the drop to all manner of causes, such as the withering of the crack cocaine market and surging incarceration rates.

What's also great about having a non-working right wing brain is to bash government and it's agencies until you can find a statistic that you like. Then it's all fine and dandy.

Exactly how did Vette "miss" these highlights when they are conspicuously present in his original post? You know, the very one from which you copied and pasted them?

You would have had a far better case if you had found material in the same article which contradicted his point and which he had neglected to post. But he didn't do that.

So you come up with the lame ass, wholly unsupported notion that he "didn't bother to actually read" the C & P he used to start the thread.

Weak.

 

[Boxlicker101]

It's no secret that a disproportionate percentage of crimes are committed by young men, especially single young men. With abortions, couples starting families later and having smaller families, the pool of potential criminals has been shrinking.

 

[imalickin]

What about 2009, 10, 11 12, 13. Nice OLD chart.

Actually that chart looks familiar...isn't it the same chart that the globalwarmers used to spoof the people into thinking the we were going to bake this year? You know the hockey stick graph.