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.
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
The fact they wrote out three-dimensional highlights they really have no idea what they’re talking about but are trying real hard.
I noticed all these people alive around me the other day. I’m not sure how I feel about it.
This is so sad to see and I hope the United States gets its mojo back as a murder capital of the universe.
This is probably the liberals fault. Everyone should be murdering everyone else, that’s the American way.
Don’t worry I have arrived
Has crime actually gone down, or have homicide rates gone down? Malcolm Gladwell did a great series on his podcast recently that points out that when trauma centers save more lives of GSW victims, the homicide rates go down simply because not as many people die -even though there are just as many bullets hitting humans.
Yes I loved that series as well! I’ve mentioned it before though and Reddit seems to think Gladwell is a scam artist for some reason? He’s just a writer ffs.
Violent crimes have gone down.
Not if the news media has anything to say about it! More at 11.
Probably not since crimes of desperation are on the fall, leaving the really gruesome heinous shit for “if it bleeds it leads” publishers to jump all over.
You might notice coverage of political violence and hate crimes have been on the rise, this ain’t because of a journalistic inclination to cover the problems of society, it’s because violent crime has fallen enough that hate crimes and political violence are a sizeable chunk of what’s left to report on for red journalists.
Who is gathering the data and how? Does homicide by crushing financial burden leading to medical crisis count?
Yes the cops, and they are doing their part to pump thise number back up.
Good for America.
Almost like the post covid recovery has kicked in but thats not a benificial perpsective we need to hand over our entire private lives so they can prevwnt such crime
Welcome back in the civilized World
3d printers aren’t magic. If you can 3d print it 9/10 you could carve it out of wood. Going to ban carving knifes?
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Homicides went up in WA state. Interesting, I thought they had the strongest gun control measures in the nation.
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Jesus fucking Christ you people reach, don’t you? Fuck me, guess the number 88 is now illegal.
OR, you could simply check OPs post history. See if there’s some bullshit in there.
OR, and this is really gonna bake your noodle, you could answer the question or simply STFU.
Having done my my own research and scrolling through the profile I have determined… they’re just some guy.
I’d guess CA for strictest, for sure the most useless. “You can’t have a grip on your rifle. It must have a ludicrous ‘fin’. It’s safer.”
Washington: “You can’t have ‘high capacity’ magazines you killers!”
Yeah, but you’re banning standard mags, what the gun was engineered to use. And swapping one is a 2-4 second chore, trivial. Only idiots buy high-capacity mags because they jam nonstop. (Which put a HUGE dent in the Aurora shooter’s evening.) I’m all in on letting morons have jammy magazines.
“Weapons of WAR!”
So how come the military doesn’t use high-capacity mags?
“Shut up shut up shut up! You just want more dead children!”
I’m just sayin’, you’re burning political capital on a non-issue. How about we fight for something like safe storage and the like? Or maybe teach children gun safety so they recognize they’re not toys and, at worst, are able to identify when someone’s being an idiot?
“NOOO! Prohibition works!”
Like with alcohol, abortion and drugs?
🤬
Anyhow, that’s how most of the conversation go amongst my liberal brethren. (The last part is where the inform me that I’m not really a liberal. I’ll let someone else fill that bit in.)
I highly recommend everyone listen to Malcolm Gladwell’s series he recently did on guns on the Revisionist History podcast. It lays out these points in crystal clarity.
Holy shit. You and I must be living the same life because it has literally been the same experience.
Its exhausting to a point.
There are plenty of liberals that aren’t sold on the gun control strategy. I’ll join the party here.
No because where I live homicide is up from last year and one still happens almost every day
My experience is more important than reality
“The world ends at my horizons and so does my empathy!”
There’s literally a section in this article titled “Anecdotes shape perception.” In the event you were being serious, try reading the article, since it specifically addresses your point.
