Shooting in Connecticut

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by realcoray

access to high powered guns has simply increased, meaning as a group it's a lot easier to kill whole groups of people very quickly?

In ACTUAL FACT ---- if you read the article I posted --- there is FAR more access to guns in general and the murder rate has FALLEN at the same time.

I'm not saying I'm for more guns or anything of the kind -- I'm just saying that the FACTS don't hold water when relating homicides and the plentiful supply of weapons.


A quick copy and paste from the article....


The rate of firearms-related murders in 2011 was 3.2 per 100,000 people – a sharp decline from 1993 when the rate of firearms-related murders was 6.6 per 100,000 people.
The number of firearms-related murder victims dropped from more than 17,000 in 1993 to 9,903 in 2011.


The article points to two manufacturers whose sales have risen 200% or more --- so SALES of weapons have obviously risen at the same time as the murder rate has dropped in half. If they were directly related - we'd see both numbers rising or falling. But here, clearly - one has doubled - and one was cut in half.