We Are More Afraid Than Ever of Gun Violence, But the Truth Is the Murder Rate Is at a 50-Year Low

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49. Respectfully, the causes of ALL crime and homicides should be studied more...

Since the number of guns AND the population have both increased hugely over the last 50 years, that should move us to determine why, despite the "more guns = more crime" sloganeering, homicides have fallen. Liberals and progressives used to look at the problem of crime very broadly, addressing poverty, discrimination, bad schools, poor family life and lack of jobs; now, they are often obsessed with the rankest social policy "tool:" Prohibitionism. It is peculiar how some have taken a cue from more conservative outlooks.

It is unwise to look at an improvement in crime data, then slough it off without learning what at least happened.