03-08-2023, 10:52 AM
(03-08-2023, 03:13 AM)Go Cards Wrote: Just got off work but as Sled pointed out the # of shootings are way up and imo the world is much more violent than it was 50 years ago.
Sled also correctly pointed out how bad Louisville is getting and it is a sad sight to witness.
They are not. I pointed this out later in the thread. The total # of shootings is down 70% from 1993 alone. In 1993, over 1.5MM people were shot both fatally and non-fatally. It's less than 500k now. The world is significantly more peaceful. However, we have a 24 hour news cycle. We hear about every single thing that happens and it makes us paranoid.
Quote:I can promise you the population in Louisville has definitely not gone down and risen considerably since the 70's without looking at any #'s.
So, this is both right and wrong. I, however, was wrong. The population of Louisville in 1970 was 740k. In 2022, it was 789k. I had originally read low 600's, but it looks like that was data for the mid 2010's. The city has not grown considerably, but the suburbs have.
