Posted on 07/12/2013 1:01:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
While the Florida trial that is weighing the question of whether 29-year-old George Zimmerman committed second-degree murder, manslaughter, or is not guilty of a crime in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has dominated the media in recent days, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just released a study revealing that the homicide rate among Americans in the 10- to 24-year-old age group hit a 30-year low in 2010, the most recent year in the study.
“The homicide rate among persons aged 10-24 years in 2010 was 7.5 percent per 100,000, the lowest in the 30-year study period,” said the report published in the July 12 edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Some theorize this is an unintended consequence of the Clean Air Act in the 1970’s.
Fewer individuals affected by lead poisoning.
” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”
They are experts on murder rate?
Since when?
BS
I think it’s due to the almost universal approval of Concealed Carry. 20 years ago, only a handful of states had it. Now almost all (Illinois?) does.
An armed society is a polite society.
—Robert Heinlein
*sigh*
Perhaps they are including murder in the category of “lead poisoning”
hehe
CNS. I guess retards don’t all work for lib news sources.
Youth murder rates started to decline right when the violent first-person shooter video games became popular in the 1990s.
So I’d like to believe it’s violent video games providing a release, preventing actual violence.
There are actually a lot of different theories for the crime decline.
I had to learn them all for my CJ theory comp :-)
Apparently homicide is a disease.
lol
Yes. I’ve heard many of them, including abortion.
Ironic. Kill them before they’re born to avoid them killing when they’re grown.
EVIDENTLY : )
Most of them have murdered each other already?
I wonder what the rate would be if only Dem governed states were included in a study?
Is that because most law enforcement officers are over the age of 24?
I don't know why, but you made me laugh!
Except where minorities live. That MUST be our fault.
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