Statistics dont support gun control

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I also suspect there are other societal factors that have contributed to the decline in crime, not just gun ownership.

Video games and higher potency marijuana are what I think need more looking into.

Youths without any adult supervision had to leave the house to look for trouble in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

The trend in crime dipping left its high in the late 80s/early 90s, and started going way down right before the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban of 1994.

Nintendo released Super Mario Bros in February of 1990. It takes a while for the FBI to compile their national crime data from all the States.

I figure 3 years of Super Mario Brothers plus smoking lots of dope kept tens of thousands of otherwise delinquent youth and repeat offender dirtbags on the couch at the house, rather than out on the street looking for trouble.

1992 was a huge year in very popular video game releases.

I'm not a gamer BTW, just looking at this from the big picture.

I think most criminals who are willing to do violence are too ignorant of the demographics of their region to really care much, although there was a report where many violent offenders were interviewed in prison as to how they evaluated targets before choosing a home to rob, person to assault, or jailer to attack.

The findings were quite interesting. For example, many stated they would not rob a place if they knew people were armed and at home, and that they would prefer not to attack jailers who had better kept uniforms and were in shape.

Most sociologists and criminologists attribute the spike in the 1980s to the rise of the cocaine industry. The question that nobody has been able to answer definitively is what caused the major drop in crime from 1993 to the present. While firearms sales did rise during that period due to population growth and the Clinton AWB, we must be careful of the correlation-causation assumption, as tempting as it is.