02-22-2022, 05:32 PM
(02-22-2022, 01:02 PM)Nately120 Wrote: My take is that the bar for what people consider to be legally and morally justified to shoot people is getting quite low. Or maybe it's just a case of more reporting. My ol man always used knowing someone who got shot over a parking space in the late 60s as his watermark example of senseless violence.
Actually, no. When one looks at the raw numbers it tells a very different story. As we all know, from ~1992 to ~2019 the crime rate, with very few exceptions, fell across the board. Simultaneously, the amount of firearms in private hands exploded. Now, it's an overly simplistic correlation, but if guns were the problem then we would have seen the exact opposite effect on the crime rate. The crime rate in the 70's and sixties was much higher than even the present day regression.
It wasn't until "defund the police" and the left's near constant demonization of law enforcement, coupled with "progressive" DA's and the viewing of criminals as the victims of an inherently racist criminal justice system that we saw reversals in this trend. Now, rather than admit the utter stupidity of their positions they are using the rising crime rate to target gun owners, a long cherished past time of the exact same people. Rather than blame the permissive/soft on crime atmosphere that they willingly created, they blame guns. You almost have to admire their balls, not only do they get to bury their head in the sand on the dumpster fire they created they can use it to further demonize a favorite target.
