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Bob Lighthouse

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From NYC earlier this year:

The city recorded in 2017 its lowest number of homicides since the end of World War II — just under 300 killings in a year that also saw the smallest number of shootings recorded in the five borough’s modern history.

By midnight of New Year’s Eve, police were expected to report 290 homicides, down 12.5 percent from 334 reported in 2016. Barring any last minute adjustment, New York will have a murder rate of just over 3.4 per 100,000 population, the lowest of any of the nation’s five largest cities.

“It is nothing short of amazing,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said earlier in December about the historic crime trends.

By comparison, Chicago, which through December 24 had reported 644 killings in a city with about one-third the population of New York City, has a preliminary homicide rate of 23.8. Chicago also will have at least 2,758 shootings in 2017, compared with just under 800 for New York, a drop of about 15 percent from 2016.

The latest New York City homicide number is the lowest in the modern era of NYPD Compstat record keeping, which began in 1994. It is a fraction of the record 2,245 killings in 1990 during an era of major drug-fueled violence.
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AJW

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On the subject of statistics, from Wikipedia:
There is no fixed definition of a mass shooting, but a common definition is an act of violence — excluding gang killings, domestic violence, or terrorist acts sponsored by an organization — in which a gunman kills at least four victims. Using this definition, one study found that nearly one-third of the world's public mass shootings between 1966 and 2012 (90 of 292 incidents) occurred in the United States. Using the same definition, Gun Violence Archive records 152 mass shootings in the United States between 1967 and May 2018, averaging eight fatalities per incident when the perpetrator's death is included.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

Fortunately it appears that this latest event doesn't meet the definition above, if reports of only three deaths including the perpetrator are correct. But no matter how it is defined, there is a great deal of evidence to indicate that the United States has a firearms problem. Or perhaps more accurately, a cultural problem, where resorting to firearms is seen by far too many people to be a valid way to settle scores.
 

Bob Lighthouse

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AJW said:
On the subject of statistics, from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States

Fortunately it appears that this latest event doesn't meet the definition above, if reports of only three deaths including the perpetrator are correct. But no matter how it is defined, there is a great deal of evidence to indicate that the United States has a firearms problem. Or perhaps more accurately, a cultural problem, where resorting to firearms is seen by far too many people to be a valid way to settle scores.
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Not true.

Most of the US is very, very safe.
Most "mass murders" are actually gang related.
Most murders are in a few areas, so painting the entire country with that brush is disingenuous.

My entire state has about the same murder rate as the UK, and we have large drug and disparity of wealth issues.
 

AJW

AJW
Bob Lighthouse said:
Not true.

Most of the US is very, very safe.
Most "mass murders" are actually gang related.
Most murders are in a few areas, so painting the entire country with that brush is disingenuous.

My entire state has about the same murder rate as the UK, and we have large drug and disparity of wealth issues.
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'Not true'? Are you seriously suggesting that the sources Wikipedia cites are making it up?
 
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