Tennessee Church Shooting

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(09-27-2017, 12:38 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Come the F on. Or it's an over-reporting/over-exposure epidemic.

We are still WAY down on violent crime from the 90s, and the US violent crime rate has been on a pretty steep decline since 1993 when it was almost 3.5 TIMES as much as it is now. Gun homicides have dropped 49% from 1993 to 2010, and non-fatal gun crimes are down 75% from 1993 to 2010.

The difference? You now have internet at your hands at all time, and 24 hour news channels, and every news agency and social media is focused on reporting every single death and every single shooting to the point where it feels like it's much more.

It used to be 20 people would die throughout the country, you'd hear about 1 of them and go "Oh, that's so sad."
Now 4 people die throughout the country, you hear about 3 of them, and go "It's an epidemic!"

The fact that violent crime is down in this country doesn't change the fact that gun violence remains an issue, especially when only Latin America and one African nation lead us in gun related deaths per capita. Statistics on mass shootings suggest the number of mass shootings have not gone down in recent decades and may have slightly increased. 

So, sure, we're doing better, but we're nowhere near where we should be with gun related deaths.