Because you have so much respect for police and the fine jobs they do?
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Where were the police?
A terrible incident occurred somewhere. It doesnât happen often, itâs not your fault, you had nothing to with it, and no one you know has been affected by it, but weâre gonna need you to surrender more of your rights because of them.
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An ArMeD sOcIeTy iS a PoLitE sOcIeTy
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Yes, yes it is.
Well, obviously, especially after reading the story in the OP.
WowâŚ, that is the biggest whataboutism in the history of whatabouisms.
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And we do not advocate no one owning guns. We put laws in place to protect people.
AKA, regulations.
But the religion and worship of the 2nd, nullifies everything else. SometimesâŚliterally.
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You look at symptoms of a problem and attempt to appease, where as I look for the root cause of the problem, with the attempt to fix it for all.
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We have put more people in prison in the last 40 years, than any other country on the planet.
You think putting more in prison will help?
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Your perpetual fantasy that somehow enough humans are going to change to an ideal you think is bestâŚis ridiculous.
In nearly every way, we are better today than in previous generations, regarding violence and crime.
Yet, you want to go backwardsâŚ
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Youth violence? Inner city violence? Drug overdose deaths?
Year Deaths Population
(July 1 residents) Crude death rate per 100,000 Age adjusted death rate per 100,000
1968 5,033 199,533,564 2.5 2.8
1969 6,006 201,568,206 3.0 3.3
1970 7,101 203,458,035 3.5 3.8
1971 6,771 206,782,970 3.3 3.5
1972 6,622 209,237,411 3.2 3.4
1973 6,413 211,361,965 3.0 3.2
1974 6,449 213,436,958 3.0 3.2
1975 7,145 215,457,198 3.3 3.4
1976 6,765 217,615,788 3.1 3.2
1977 6,130 219,808,632 2.8 2.9
1978 5,506 222,102,279 2.5 2.6
1979 2,544 224,635,398 1.1 1.1
1980 2,492 226,624,371 1.1 1.1
1981 2,668 229,487,512 1.2 1.2
1982 2,862 231,701,425 1.2 1.2
1983 2,866 233,781,743 1.2 1.2
1984 3,266 235,922,142 1.4 1.3
1985 3,612 238,005,715 1.5 1.5
1986 4,187 240,189,882 1.7 1.7
1987 3,907 242,395,034 1.6 1.6
1988 4,865 244,651,961 2.0 2.0
1989 5,035 247,001,762 2.0 2.0
1990 4,506 248,922,111 1.8 1.8
1991 5,215 253,088,068 2.1 2.0
1992 5,951 256,606,463 2.3 2.3
1993 7,382 260,024,637 2.8 2.8
1994 7,828 263,241,475 3.0 3.0
1995 8,000 266,386,596 3.0 3.0
1996 8,431 269,540,779 3.1 3.1
1997 9,099 272,776,678 3.3 3.3
1998 9,838 276,032,848 3.6 3.6
1999 16,849 279,040,168 6.0 6.1
2000 17,415 281,421,906 6.2 6.2
2001 19,394 284,968,955 6.8 6.8
2002 23,518 287,625,193 8.2 8.2
2003 25,785 290,107,933 8.9 8.9
2004 27,424 292,805,298 9.4 9.4
2005 29,813 295,516,599 10.1 10.1
2006 34,425 298,379,912 11.5 11.5
2007 36,010 301,231,207 12.0 11.9
2008 36,450 304,093,966 12.0 11.9
2009 37,004 306,771,529 12.1 11.9
2010 38,329 308,745,538 12.4 12.3
2011 41,340 311,591,917 13.3 13.2
2012 41,502 313,914,040 13.2 13.1
2013 43,982 316,128,839 13.9 13.8
2014 47,055 318,857,056 14.8 14.7
2015 52,404 321,418,820 16.3 16.3
2016 63,632 323,127,513 19.7 19.8
2017 70,237 325,719,178 21.6 21.7
2018 67,367 327,167,434 20.6 20.7
2019 70,630 328,239,523 21.5 21.6
Total 1,015,060
The numbers last year in 2021 were worse yet. You are soooooooooooo wrong.
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Just like the retired cop who shot the guy in the movie theater right?
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Your sOcIeTy isnât armed.
You donât get to decide. âWeâ. Typical.
âWeâ. Again.
Well in this case, it sure was.
Not sure which one was more polite - the armed gentleman who robbed the armed shooter at gunpoint, or the armed shooter who then proceeded to shoot up a random vehicle, killed a child.
Both seem polite-ish to me.
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Overdoses are up. that is a medical issue, hyped up by the âwar on drugsâ.
Convenient of you to cut off âregarding violence and crime.â
Also convenient of you to limit to youthâŚ
My point still standsâŚ
Crime in the United States has been recorded since the early 1600s. Crime rates have varied over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a broad bulging peak between the 1970s and early 1990s. After 1991, crime rates began to fall year by year and has since declined significantly. This trend lasted until 2015, where crime rates began to rise slightly. This reversed in 2018 and 2019, but violent crime increased significantly again in 2020.[2][3] Despite the increase in violent crime, particularly murders, between 2020 and 2021, the quantity of overall crime is still far below the peak of crime seen in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as other crimes such as rape, property crime and robbery continued to decline.[4][5]
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