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Originally Posted by NobodyHere
The murder rate has dropped in half since 1980.
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Gun related deaths, both by suicide and murder haven't changed all that much since the 70s. We did have a bit of a drop from 2000 through about 2015 and it's steadily risen since then. But in the early 70s we were at about 5.2 deaths by gun murder per 100k and we're at 6.2 per 100k now.
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It took 1 girl dying while playing lawn darts to get them banned in the US. 9/11 completely changed airport security permanently. It took 1 guy failing to blow up a plane with his shoes to get security again changed at airports.
The last major gun control legislation passed by congress was in '94.