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0 pointsrbritton8y ago0 comments

You're comparing two different numbers. The parent is referring to net firearm crimes while the data you cited is "mass shooting deaths".

If you check CDC data through 2016 (https://wonder.cdc.gov), the non-suicide firearm-related death rate is effectively flat for the date range they have data for, varying at most by about 0.1%.

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newnewpdro8y ago

If the rate is flat, then the quantity is increasing due to population growth.

We need the rate to go down proportional to population growth just to keep the number of shooting deaths constant.

It's unrealistic to expect the quantity to stay constant or go down with such growth, it's already a pretty low rate.

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