January and February 2020 saw a combined homicide rate increase of 32.5 percent compared to the same time in 2019. March through May saw a 19.4 percent surge, while June through August experienced a 37.2 percent rate increase and September through December reported a 28.2 percent spike year-over-year.bear2be2 said:Crime rates aren't increasing. This is exactly what I'm talking about when I refer to irrational fear.muddybrazos said:Crime rates are increasing across the nation. I don't claim to need an ar15 for home protection bc i have a pistol and a shotgun for that. The ar15 is for fun bc shooting rifles is fun. I just spent a long weekend on a friends ranch and we had a nice array of high powered rifles that we used to shoot targets, tannerite, hogs among other things. Nobody got killed.bear2be2 said:No, I haven't mistaken anything. The stated motivation used most often by gun fetishists is based 100 percent on statistically irrational fear. The odds of needing any weapon for self-defense are astronomically small and shrinking alongside the violent crime rates.Oldbear83 said:
You have some grossly mistaken ideas about gun owners, not to mention guns.
Maybe read up before your next post on that topic.
Or would that get in the way of your screeding?
Yet, you don't bring up the statistics here. Why? Because that's a fear you share.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/
And I have no problem with the "shooting **** is fun" mentality. I just don't think that's reasonable justification for flooding the market with weapons that (in the wrong hands) can kill dozens of people in minutes.
In all, homicide rates in 2020 were 30 percent higher than in the year before, with 1,268 more murders in the 34-city sample alone, the NCCCJ found. Murders rose in 29 of the 34 cities examined, or 85 percent.
"Homicides increased in nearly all of the 34 cities in the sample," the experts wrote. "In the authors' view, urgent action is necessary to address these rapidly rising rates. Subduing the pandemic, increasing confidence in the police and the justice system and implementing proven anti-violence strategies will be necessary to achieve a durable peace in the nation's cities."
https://nypost.com/2021/02/01/americas-murder-rate-increase-in-2020-has-no-modern-precedent/#:~:text=January%20and%20February%202020%20saw,the%20same%20time%20in%202019.&text=Murders%20rose%20in%2029%20of,sample%2C%E2%80%9D%20the%20experts%20wrote.
I actually speak to cops on a regular basis at my work and they tell me crime is increasing so I take their word for it. You don't like guns and probably have an irrational fear of them but that's ok.