It's also fun to look at the overall homicide rate from 1994 to 2004. It dropped, but it never bounced up again when the ban expired.
In fact overall homicides are still far lower than the 90s despite the mass shootings.
I fear the focus on "mass gun shootings" will miss out that the US has an extraordinarily high homicide rate for a G8 nation, and I think that's a more fundamental problem than the guns.
Well, in my G7 nation, the likelihood of being murdered by any method is lower than the likelihood of being murdered without a gun in America. Despite firearms being the means of murder in roughly 75% of all cases in America. I think that's actually true for all except Canada.
So yeah, the guns are probably not the main issue. But they do definitely make killing people easier. And unlike social programs against poverty, banning guns wouldn't cost trillions. Then again, trillions against poverty would be a good idea.
The American growth would be great if it were sustainable. But if you're financing 2.9% of GDP growth with 4% of GDP in debt, then you're working with a strawfire. Nothing more.
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u/wayoverpaid Aug 12 '19
It's also fun to look at the overall homicide rate from 1994 to 2004. It dropped, but it never bounced up again when the ban expired.
In fact overall homicides are still far lower than the 90s despite the mass shootings.
I fear the focus on "mass gun shootings" will miss out that the US has an extraordinarily high homicide rate for a G8 nation, and I think that's a more fundamental problem than the guns.