Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice?
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Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
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Of course no one will notice, because it's beneficial to certain groups to keep pushing the idea that there's a rampant crime wave and we're in more danger than ever.
NY really wants to pass that law to force background checks for 3d printer purchases.
Unless they do the same for lathes, mills, drills, and pressure piping, seems almost like it's a pointless fucking law designed to have a certain look with no factual basis...
Fuck, I could teach someone how to build their own 3d printer from a mix of cheap ebay parts and off the shelf hardware store shit.
Next they'll make it illegal to have technical documentation on the schematics and models for things arbitrarily deemed "dangerous".
Oh wait....
Yeah thats exactly what I said when I read about it
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8132
What's crazy is that its both sides of the isle doing this. The far right does it to stoke fear and over-promote guns as the only means of protection, and the far left does it to villainize guns as the root of all violence. It's exhausting.
Which current politicians are "far left"? But more importantly, what Democrat politicians are fear mongering about rampant crime?
I don't follow any right-wing media, but yeah, on the left...
"There's a mass shooting every day!!!"
https://imgur.com/a/h6DvNwE
LOL, and you might notice the numbers from Mother Jones. Those right-wing fascists! 😆
Being a lefty shooter, I got opinions, and I see a lot from both sides. Vehicular and gun deaths are on par, year after year. And I can avoid suicide (43% I think?) and I can stay away from bad people and places. I don't have those options on the road.
US homicide rates in 2020 were still not good... You're rapidly heading back down to that level. Which is a good negative trend. But it's still high. Really high.
Even that 2020 peak is substantially lower than it was in the 80s and 90s, though.
It's still really high compared to the global average. Why is that so difficult to accept?