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Originally Posted by Botnst
I assume the reason gun control advocates are motivated is to decrease the murder rate.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports show homicides dropped to 12,664 in 2011, the last year available. The murder rate has dropped from 9.3 per 100,000 in 1992 to 4.7 per 100,000 in 2011.
FBI — Table 1 |
I would believe that to be an erroneous assumption.
AFAIK the gun control advocates wish to see a drop in overall gun violence.