Not only are all of the FBI's serious crime rates at or below their historic lows, most of the incident-counts are, too! Even though the population grew from 247 million in 1989 to 304 million in 2008.
Example: there were 1.5 million motor-vehicle thefts in 1989. In 2008 there were 956,846.
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Example: there were 1.5 million motor-vehicle thefts in 1989. In 2008 there were 956,846.
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Hmmm, I wonder if the near 3 million gun purchases in the last 12 months had anything to do with it?
Yeah, I don't need to point out that the number of guns owned by American citizens increased by about four million a year during those two decades.
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