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Originally Posted by DuffMan
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Kind of interesting chart for a lot of reasons. Gun deaths are actually considerably down from the 90s even though population has increased since then. Yet, everyone thinks things are far worse now. Also,
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr...tables/table-1 shows that homicides are way down from the 90s and continue to fall. I guess police shootings, suicides and accidental deaths are causing the numbers to rise?
One thing I find funny (well, sad actually), is that if you look at any news story on motor vehicle deaths decreasing that attributes it to safety features like ESC (which has statistically reduced motor vehicle deaths by 20-30% in every country that mandated it), you can read a bunch of comments calling it BS. They all think it is some kind of liberal agenda to get people to have safer cars, and they find it very distasteful. Not only is the right wing in the US against gun control, they are also against safer cars. Also, they tend to favour wars, and are against people having health care. I guess you can't convince someone that gun control is a good idea if they are actually in favor of more people dying.