The Assault Weapons Ban was passed in 1994. There is every indication it began the decline in gun crimes. It still has an influence. We know for a fact there are a fixed number of gun purchasers in the USA. They are primarily the ones that still purchase guns.
The number of people that do not purchase guns has not increased, but, has decreased. The tragedy continues to realize there are still 30,000 gun deaths per year in the USA, including suicides.
States with very lax gun laws are definitely depraved, morally corrupt and wicked. "Stand Your Ground" is depraved.
May 7, 2013
By Bill Chappell
Since 1993, (click here) the United States has seen a drop in the rate of homicides and other violence involving guns, according to two new studies released Tuesday. Using government data, analysts saw a steep drop for violence in the 1990s, they saw more modest drops in crime rates since 2000.
"Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011," according to a report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, "and nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million victimizations in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.
There were seven gun homicides per 100,000 people in 1993, the Pew Research Center study says, which dropped to 3.6 gun deaths in 2010. The study relied in part on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49 percent lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation's population grew," according to the Pew study. "The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75 percent lower in 2011 than in 1993."...
The number of people that do not purchase guns has not increased, but, has decreased. The tragedy continues to realize there are still 30,000 gun deaths per year in the USA, including suicides.
States with very lax gun laws are definitely depraved, morally corrupt and wicked. "Stand Your Ground" is depraved.
May 7, 2013
By Bill Chappell
Since 1993, (click here) the United States has seen a drop in the rate of homicides and other violence involving guns, according to two new studies released Tuesday. Using government data, analysts saw a steep drop for violence in the 1990s, they saw more modest drops in crime rates since 2000.
"Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011," according to a report by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, "and nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million victimizations in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011.
There were seven gun homicides per 100,000 people in 1993, the Pew Research Center study says, which dropped to 3.6 gun deaths in 2010. The study relied in part on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49 percent lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation's population grew," according to the Pew study. "The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75 percent lower in 2011 than in 1993."...
