Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Associations
Last year, the United States had a severe recession with rapidly rising unemployment and poverty, Americans bought more firearms than in any year in history (more than 14 million firearms, enough to arm the 21 largest standing armies in the world), and violent crime fell across the board. By a lot.
One is forced to wonder whether either poverty or rates of gun ownership "cause" or are directly correlated with rates of violent crime. Quite contrary to the impression one might have had from, oh, reading the newspaper most of the last forty years.
2 Comments:
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Tue Sep 14, 07:05:00 PM:
Interesting article. I'm curious to why the South has the highest (42.5%) crime rate in the nation.
-david
By , at
Tue Sep 14, 10:19:00 PM:
