Gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their 1993 peak, a pair of reports released Tuesday showed, adding fuel to Congress' battle over whether to tighten restrictions on firearms.
A study released Tuesday by the government's Bureau of Justice Statistics found that gun-related homicides dropped from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. That's a 39 percent reduction.
Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country's growing population. It found that the number of gun homicides per 100,000 people fell from 7 in 1993 to 3.6 in 2010, a drop of 49 percent.
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but we need more control
ReplyDeleteif we had to depend on the msm we would Never know this. the low info voters still don't know it. again; they make decisions based on emotions. the men in leadership are really "girly girls", sissys; hence bad laws are being made. this includes omalley and obama.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of girly girls do you think Liarton was squealing like a girl when the cops were chasing him on the beach that late evening?
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