Happiness Is A Warm Gun

[Dinner]

Personally I think it's video games that have lowered crime. Guns are awesome in their own right.

There is just about as much evidence for video games lower crime rates as there is for guns lowering crime rates. In fact, you could add in just about anything you want from the popularity of the color purple to the amount of times people wank per day because there is no evidence that guns or those other things effect crime rates in a positive way. This is just "Welp, the crime rate went down so it must be gun ownership that did it... Yes, sir-ree-bob... Nope, don't need any other evidence than that..."

[The Mad Monk]

The reality is the reason crime keeps going down has very little to do with guns and a whole hell of a lot to do with the aging of the population. Sorry, but 70 year olds do a whole hell of a lot fewer snatch and grabs or forcible rapes than 20 year olds. The older the population average gets the fewer violent crimes there are; that's an almost direct cause and effect where as gun ownership is all over the place with very weak correlation in a lot if not most cases.

More 70 years olds + more unemployed 20 year olds = less violent crime?

[dannubis]

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