03-29-2019, 10:36 PM
(03-29-2019, 09:36 PM)Benton Wrote: That's the point with gun violence. Somebody eventually has to take a step toward reducing it. Just saying "yeah, there's a lot out there, that's a tough one" isn't going to do anything. If restricting access to a very, very small portion of the population reduces the number, then it's a step forward. That portion being the crazy and the criminal.
https://gun-control.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006094
1999- 10,828 gun related homicides
2016- 14,415 gun related homicides
I'll comment on the rest of this on Monday, but this site is completely lying about the number of firearms related homicides in 2016.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-4.xls
The FBI UCR has 11,044 firearms related homicides in 2016. Take into account the increase in the US population from 1999 to 2016 and that's a per-capita decrease, and not an insignificant one.
EDIT:
Their numbers are significantly off for every single year compared to the UCR. I don't think I'd consider that site a viable source on this subject.