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What Caused the Great Crime Decline in the U.S.?
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The Atlantic is ran by bunch of liberal educated idiots that think socialism works.
It's not rocket science.
Criminals come in different flavors but the majority of career criminals the bulk of the crime data numbers start young 12-14 and through ever increasing violence and escalating crimes end up either in prison or dead.
There are a multitude of reasons of why crime rates dropped. Better policing, better courts, incarcerating violent criminals and liberal carry and protection of legal shooting laws all played a part. But these fools won't acknowledge that-yah know your 43 more times to be injured by your gun than saved by it ignorance...
Hell, Jessie Jackass and his Rainblow coalition attempted to make an argument in states with Stand Your Ground laws where the justified homicide rate of young black men nearly tripled that that was racist and evil that a violent criminal was legally killed by a armed citizen. Young black men have the distinction of having a much higher rate of crime, so it's not a stretch to comprehend when deserving of a bullet some armed citizen obliged them.
The Atlantic fails to mention the significance of the change in gun policy the past 25 years, it takes a one sentence brief mention but as leftist liberals do they fail to mention the changes that didn't amount to the evils they bleated of incessantly and even today or their last dying breath... They ignore that the nation's Democratic strong holds with the most draconian anti-2A with all the gun control they demand and more are where the worst crime rates are and if adjusted to a more normal our violent crime rates would mimic Europe.
This says much to why the crime rates didn't go up as predicted:
It's not rocket science.
Criminals come in different flavors but the majority of career criminals the bulk of the crime data numbers start young 12-14 and through ever increasing violence and escalating crimes end up either in prison or dead.
There are a multitude of reasons of why crime rates dropped. Better policing, better courts, incarcerating violent criminals and liberal carry and protection of legal shooting laws all played a part. But these fools won't acknowledge that-yah know your 43 more times to be injured by your gun than saved by it ignorance...
Hell, Jessie Jackass and his Rainblow coalition attempted to make an argument in states with Stand Your Ground laws where the justified homicide rate of young black men nearly tripled that that was racist and evil that a violent criminal was legally killed by a armed citizen. Young black men have the distinction of having a much higher rate of crime, so it's not a stretch to comprehend when deserving of a bullet some armed citizen obliged them.
The Atlantic fails to mention the significance of the change in gun policy the past 25 years, it takes a one sentence brief mention but as leftist liberals do they fail to mention the changes that didn't amount to the evils they bleated of incessantly and even today or their last dying breath... They ignore that the nation's Democratic strong holds with the most draconian anti-2A with all the gun control they demand and more are where the worst crime rates are and if adjusted to a more normal our violent crime rates would mimic Europe.
This says much to why the crime rates didn't go up as predicted:
Security cameras.
I'll take lead contamination for $500 Alex.
I sincerely doubt that "hypothesis" has the influence of removing career criminals as does acute lead poisoning...
But I'll take abortions for $200.. No. not really.
As mentioned in the article, its the only correlation that matches with both the US and world-wide violent crime stats. Every single person on Earth (but especally in the Industrialized/Mechanized World) is exposed to gasoline and its combustion byproducts on a daily basis. Look into the whole lead gasoline additive issue (and how the petrolium industry tried to cover it up) and then google up lead poisoning. As soon as they switched over the MTBE the crime rate started to go down. Now look into the MTBE contamination issue and see how widespread THAT **** got and the problems they now have discovered with it.
I have.
Crime and it's escalation and de-escalation has been a common issue and study in the criminology field. While there is disagreement there are trends directly associated with reduction.
Yes. That isn't at issue. It is what caused/is causing it.
I think it was the wide spread low dose lead posioning in the 60s and 70s that caused the spike in both violent crime, mental disorders, and birth defects. It was the discontinuation of that, but the damage was done, and further "miracles of modern chemistry" and their unknown side-effects has cause a general pussification of society that has had as an effect, a drastic reduction in violence.
Don your tin-foil hat and you could believe it might have been an intentional policy/conspiracy to dope the population into being more passive and docile. Now, barring the occasional outlyer of random mass-shootings, most male-aggression is vented thru safe and meaningless violent video games.
I think it was the wide spread low dose lead posioning in the 60s and 70s that caused the spike in both violent crime, mental disorders, and birth defects. It was the discontinuation of that, but the damage was done, and further "miracles of modern chemistry" and their unknown side-effects has cause a general pussification of society that has had as an effect, a drastic reduction in violence.
Don your tin-foil hat and you could believe it might have been an intentional policy/conspiracy to dope the population into being more passive and docile. Now, barring the occasional outlyer of random mass-shootings, most male-aggression is vented thru safe and meaningless violent video games.
Liberalization of abortion surely contributed. See Freakonomics I or II for details...
Crime started dropping first in the states that legalized abortion. Then right on schedule with the others as Roe v. Wade was "decided". Personally I'd like an "emanation" or "penumbra" found covering privacy, private property ownership, and that the 2nd and 4th amendments mean what they say, but I digress.
Ethyl lead as a contributor to crime doesn't explain the differing starts of the falling crime rates, in different places. Freakonomics makes a strong case.
Crime started dropping first in the states that legalized abortion. Then right on schedule with the others as Roe v. Wade was "decided". Personally I'd like an "emanation" or "penumbra" found covering privacy, private property ownership, and that the 2nd and 4th amendments mean what they say, but I digress.
Ethyl lead as a contributor to crime doesn't explain the differing starts of the falling crime rates, in different places. Freakonomics makes a strong case.
