Tldr: going after guns, not violence. Remember its the tool not the action

  • Throwaway@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Well first, I would focus on violence, not gun violence.

    And we are in one of the most peaceful times in all of history. It started going up in 2020, which coincides with covid.

    https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate

    My personal thought is that there’s other factors involved, namely the effects of covid, and the effects of the response to covid. A stressed person is much more likely to be violent than an unstressed person.

    Of course without a proper study, its impossible to be certain.

    • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      That is misleading. While the violent crime rate basically flatlined between 2000-2017, it started going up shortly after the Trump presidency began in 2018-2019, prior to 2020 when it really started to skyrocket.

      Also, trends are going to be different between states so looking at the US as a whole is not very good data to look at. Crime goes up in places and crime goes down in others. Understanding the details of where the changes are most drastic is absolutely important.