In article <d4066$51896e8f$414e828e$
9...@EVERESTKC.NET>,
George Plimpton <geo...@si.not> wrote:
> On 5/7/2013 2:13 PM, Scheisskopf lied:
>
> > On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:57:40 -0700, George Plimpton <geo...@si.not>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/7/2013 1:48 PM, Scheisskopf lied:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:43:55 -0700, George Plimpton <geo...@si.not>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 5/7/2013 1:40 PM, Scheisskopf lied:
> >>>>> On Tue, 07 May 2013 13:23:49 -0700, George Plimpton <geo...@si.not>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> By Emily Alpert
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> May 7, 2013, 12:46 p.m.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the
> >>>>>> middle
> >>>>>> of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other
> >>>>>> crimes, two new studies of government data show.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half
> >>>>>> believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> Pew Research Center.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> In less than two decades, the gun murder rate has been nearly cut in
> >>>>>> half. Other gun crimes fell even more sharply, paralleling a broader
> >>>>>> drop in violent crimes committed with or without guns. Violent crime
> >>>>>> dropped steeply during the 1990s and has fallen less dramatically
> >>>>>> since
> >>>>>> the turn of the millennium.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The number of gun killings dropped 39% between 1993 and 2011, the
> >>>>>> Bureau
> >>>>>> of Justice Statistics reported in a separate report released
> >>>>>> Wednesday.
> >>>>>> Gun crimes that werenšt fatal fell by 69%. However, guns still remain
> >>>>>> the most common murder weapon in the United States, the report noted.
> >>>>>> Between 1993 and 2011, more than two out of three murders in the U.S.
> >>>>>> were carried out with guns, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-gun-crimes-pew-re
> >>>>>> port-20130507,0,3022693.story
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Of course Americans think gun crime is up when it's actually down -
> >>>>>> they
> >>>>>> get a steady diet of gun-grabbing left-wing media reports hyping their
> >>>>>> fears.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well golly gee, the Brady Bill was passed in 1993.
> >>>>
> >>>> The Brady Bill does *not*, of course, explain a sustained year-on-year
> >>>> reduction in gun violence.
> >>>>
> >>> It does to everyone but morons like you. It's not my fault you can't
> >>> understand even the simplest things.
> >>>
> >>>> You're evading - very fearfully - the fact that you gun-grabbers and
> >>>> your loyal ass-lick media stooges are doing everything you can to
> >>>> persuade people that gun violence is growing, when in fact it is falling
> >>>> and has been for year. Why are you lying to the public?
> >>>
> >>> Cite.
> >>
> >> What the fuck do you mean, "cite"? Have you been blowing gummer?
> >> That's what he always squeals, too.
> >>
> > You're making the claim.
>
> The Pew Research organization made the claim.
>
>
> >>> Who's saying gun violence is on the rise and what stats are
> >>> they using?
> >>
> >> The public are saying it.
> >>
> > Prove it,
>
> Tell it to Pew Research, fuckwit.
>
>
> >>> I'm saying gun violence has been going down ever since
> >>> additional gun control laws were legislated.
> >>
> >> That doesn't prove or even suggest that additional gun control laws
> >> *caused* the reduction in gun crime. You wouldn't have a prayer of
> >> being able to show that.
> >>
> > You said gun violence has been going down since 93.
>
> No, I didn't.
>
>
> > That's when the Brady Bill was passed. You figure it out.
>
> You're committing a classic /post hoc/ fallacy.
>
> Gun violence continued to *rise* for a few years after passage of the
> Brady bill. Then it began falling. The Brady bill would *NOT* lead to
> a sustained year-on-year decline in gun violence, you stupid fuck.
Straw man. Nothing is going to produce instant results.
>
>
> >>> And I noticed you dodged the point that states with the strictest gun
> >>> control laws have the lowest gun violence rates.
> >>
> >> Nothing in the story said that, you liar.
> >
> > I've posted the study here before.
>
> Bullshit.