Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?

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hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not the same person but here you go

en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Crime_in_the_United_States has a few sources and an easy to consume table. Per its table, rates since 1960 peaked in the 80s at 10.2/100k population; Columbine was in 1999, when the rate was 5.7 per 100k, and until at least 2018, the rate has never exceeded that.

www.macrotrends.net/…/murder-homicide-rate has slightly different data and shows that the murder rates increased past that rate during COVID. However in 2022 the rates dropped - source and were expected to continue dropping at that rate or even faster. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/…/674290/ confirms that theory - rates for the 90 reporting cities were down 12% as of May of this year.

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