Why we don't get good gun laws.

[krispos42]

9. Yet the homicide rate dropped by 40% during the same time period.

1991-2004. The revolver is in decline, the semi-auto pistol is ascending. Semi-automatic rifles are replacing bolt and lever action guns. And yet, despite an uptick in mass shootings, the homicide rate falls 40%.

So, it's not a goddamn hardware issue! "Oooo, oooo, it's military-styled! BAN IT!" is getting extraordinarily old.

For every person killed in a mass shooting over a hundred are shot and killed in non-mass shootings. Obviously, focusing on yearly TOTALS is far more important than high-profile but rare occurrences.

"But they're not rare anymore!"

Someone is murdered every 32 minutes in this country. Every THIRTY TWO MINUTES. Over 44 per day! And virtually none of them make the national news and dominate the headlines with all the hand-wringing and "we have to do something" lamentations.

During my lunch break, somebody in this country was murdered. Abused wife, gang fight, store clerk, whatever. Where's that news?

It's not a hardware problem. We're in extraordinary times because of Covid-19 and Trumpism and all the other shit stresses we've been dealing with for months and years.

It's probably going to be a bad year for crime in general.