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Originally Posted by Rochard
I had never given any thought to gun ownership and a quick search provided me with tons of info that gun ownership is down...
The NRA wants us to believe we need firearms to protect ourselves, but the truth is violent is on a forty year downward trend.
Here is another one:
Four Decade Decline In Gun Ownership? : GUNFAQ.ORG |
That was the 2nd result for my Google search, but yes there were quite a few results saying the same thing. A lot had .edu in the URL, too.
Gun ownership is pretty much on a downward spiral & has been for decades and so is violent crime. I'm not sure if the two are related, nor do I really care, but people posting bullshit just to support their ideology is annoying.
This data(violent crime's downward spiral since the 60's) has been thoroughly researched in academia, especially by criminologists, over the past decade. I bet a search on scholar.google.com would have some interesting finds.