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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't think I'd say "significantly". The per 100K firearms homicide rate is only about 7% below the 1970s peak and is right in line with the '90s peak:
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Overall homicide rates seems to be more significantly down. I guess Americans have decided that guns work best for murdering people somewhere along the way.
In the context of this conversation about living in the US, the risks of dying by firearm can me mitigated to a similar risk of living in a Canadian city.
Simply not having a gun in your house cuts that risk in half. There are a handful of states with a lower homicide rate than Alberta and about 18 states with a lower rate than Saskatchewan. There are plenty of counties and states in the US where risks are just not significantly different enough to spend much time worrying about.
I'm not a gun guy at all, and would be perfectly happy if they were confiscated and destroyed en masse, but I also don't spend too much time worrying about them.