20=10+10=/=100=10*10=/=20If everybody kicks in $10, I wonder if we can buy a "Venn Diagram Generator" app for the forum...
20=10+10=/=100=10*10=/=20If everybody kicks in $10, I wonder if we can buy a "Venn Diagram Generator" app for the forum...
Well crap, that doesn't fit either side's agenda......Gun ownership is only one variable in an incredibly complex problem. Both pro- and con- tend to overinflate the importance of it.
IMO, the biggest things that affect murder rates are:
1) setting cultural expectations that murder is intolerable
2) instilling basic conflict resolution and anger management skills in young people
3) segrating murderers from society
4) interruption of 'tit for tat' murder cycles.
#2 is where availability of weapons comes in to play more than the others. The quicker and easier it is to kill someone, the less time you have to cool down, to consider the consequences, etc. Same for suicide. The truly dedicated will do it anyway, but many folks if you can just get them over that initial hump and start thinking they'll back down and have a chance to walk away from the proverbial, or literal, cliff.
If you have a lot of young males who believe murder is acceptable, who believe they have nothing to lose, who believe society that condemns murder has failed them, then you'll have high murder rates. Young people have less forethought, more energy, and aren't cynical and beaten down by futility yet. It's not that old people can't murder. It's just they are too tired of each other's ******** to muster the energy to bother with it. Not even really joking.
Very brief summary of a very complex issue, but I think that's the crux of it.
Justified homicides are certainly up in Marion Co, at least.
However $20 is $20.20=10+10=/=100=10*10=/=20
Father of the year, that year.
We have multiple people SHOT per day in indy. Not everybody dies. That could be what is confusing.I'm skeptical too. Like here in Indy, they report some 200+ homicides so far this year, but I would swear that we have been averaging at least one per day, if not multiples per day. Something doesn't add up.