Skip to comments.
Murder not a top cause of death, a first in 45 yrs
ap ^
| jan 11, 2012
| MIKE STOBBE
Posted on 01/11/2012 9:49:01 AM PST by george76
For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top causes of death... the murder rate fell enough in 2010 to drop it out of the top 15 causes.
Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendament; banglist; homicide; murder; secondamendment; trends
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
An armed society is ...
1
posted on
01/11/2012 9:49:08 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
Exactly. As gun purchases soared, murder rates fell.
2
posted on
01/11/2012 9:52:06 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
("Climate Change" my a.... All weather is local.)
To: george76
Are Obama’s policies at the top of the list?
3
posted on
01/11/2012 9:53:03 AM PST
by
edpc
(Wilby 2012)
To: george76
Because people are living longer, and because abortion is so prevalent among younger people, there are proportionately more older people than before; hence a statistically different proportion of death causes.
4
posted on
01/11/2012 10:01:53 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(A land of hyper-legalisms is not the same as a land of law. --Mark Steyn)
To: edpc
they’re saving “Death Panels” as # 1 for his 2nd term.
5
posted on
01/11/2012 10:02:42 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
To: george76
Must be just among those already born.
Freegards
6
posted on
01/11/2012 10:03:29 AM PST
by
Ransomed
To: george76
For the first time in 45 yearsThat's about the same time the (not so) Great Society began.
I guess it finally got to the point where they ran out of victims.
7
posted on
01/11/2012 10:03:58 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: george76
15 million guns sold this year and something like 120,000 in one day in December. Hunters in some of the eastern states are larger than the armies of several tin pot dictators.
8
posted on
01/11/2012 10:04:58 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: george76
I’m guessing this list dosen’t count the MILLIONS of Americans murdered in utero every year.
But praise God the 5th district court upheld the Tx songrm law
9
posted on
01/11/2012 10:05:34 AM PST
by
SpringtoLiberty
(Liberty is on the march!)
To: FlingWingFlyer
As concealed carry laws have taken effect, murder rates have fallen. John Lott’s work details this effectively, More Guns Less Crime.
10
posted on
01/11/2012 10:08:13 AM PST
by
AlmaKing
To: george76
". . Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down " They must have created a new category for beheadings, bombings and other terrorist acts that result in murder/death.
/sarc
11
posted on
01/11/2012 10:24:39 AM PST
by
Eastbound
( 3-7-77)
To: george76
7,225,800 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2009.
12
posted on
01/11/2012 10:25:17 AM PST
by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: oh8eleven
What demographic correlation approaches 1.0 in your chart? /s
13
posted on
01/11/2012 10:28:18 AM PST
by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: pierrem15
And we didn’t even need to see a chart to know it.
14
posted on
01/11/2012 10:50:59 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: george76
I lived in a place where the sheriff boasted that he solved 100% of his cases. They found a body and he couldn’t solve it, so he came out with, “I have ruled this a suicide. This man stabbed himself in the back 15 times.” Kept a straight face all through the press conference.
15
posted on
01/11/2012 10:55:15 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: oh8eleven
I’m willing to bet that these top ten cities have one common denominator. does anyone have a good guess and the first two will be the same
16
posted on
01/11/2012 11:03:23 AM PST
by
mt tom
To: george76
Expert agree, it’s down to two possible reasons:
1. Fewer people are killing each other.
or
2. More people are dying of other stuff.
The experts will be applying for a 25 million dollar grant to determine which it is.
17
posted on
01/11/2012 11:03:38 AM PST
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: george76
"Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down..."
That's because they're liars. Their predecessors knew that an aging population would cause the trend. Criminologists want to help their professional and political friends to rob old folks (not as likely recidivists) and their few heirs of their properties. They laughingly call such actions, "politics" (been there).
18
posted on
01/11/2012 11:08:31 AM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Albion Wilde
19
posted on
01/11/2012 11:40:56 AM PST
by
Valpal1
(It is tyranny is to force a man to pay for what he does not want because you think it good for him.)
To: All
How about 3 Strikes and You Are Out?
Remember how badly the lame stream media and the liberals screamed about this “horrible law”?
Crime rates started dropping almost immediately since it was implemented and this current statistic is probably a continuing result of it.
Of course, you never hear the credit given to it. It would mean the press and the libs were 100% wrong....again.
20
posted on
01/11/2012 2:41:06 PM PST
by
OhhTee5
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson