FBI: Murders fell 10 percent in first half of 2009

[Tejas]

Dec 21 01:08 PM US/Eastern
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writer

Murder and manslaughter dropped a surprising 10 percent for the first half of the year, according to the FBI's data.


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Maybe the continuing spread of CCW?

More people "getting along"?

Ammunition prices?

[valerief]

1. Increase in police tazings? nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. We're running out of victims?

[Hoopla Phil]

5. LOL Good one. I think Houston just might be. n/t

[Tejas]

6. Katricians killing each other off. nt

[DonP]

3. With gun sales at all time highs?

We were promised by the Brady Gun Control Group that blood would run in the streets with all the gun sales.

Who do we see to complain about a 20 year low in violent crime that is "totally coincidental" with 48 states allowing their law abiding to carry concealed?

[virginia mountainman]

10. Just another, failed, gun control promise..

Someone should make a list of all their "failed predictions"...

And yet, the MSM insists on ramming their message down our throat, well, it is getting to the point it don't matter what they say, like the Repuke party from which they sprang, they have finally just about shrank to insignificance.

[slackmaster]

4. I suspect long-term demographic trends have something to do with it

As the population gradually becomes older, crime rates will continue to decline.

The median age reported for the 2000 census was 35.3 years. The CIA's World Factbook gives an estimate of 36.7 as the median age for 2008.

Most violent crime has always been committed by young men.

[PavePusher]

18. I would have predicted the opposite...

More older people, more accessable victims.

Hmmm.

[slackmaster]

19. As a senior citizen I resent that remark

Some of us are quite capable of putting up a fight.

[doc03]

7. Fewer and fewer people have anything

worth stealing or dieing for.:shrug:

[burrfoot]

8. Do you mean in terms of

possessions, Doc, or in terms of causes to believe in? I think we're poor in both these days. The former, I think, might actually increase crime rates. Even though there's less that's worth stealing, the fact that there is less makes those who don't have it even more desperate, etc., etc.

The latter, of course...well, people having fewer causes they find it worthwhile to die for might just be the silver lining in the cloud of apathy that seems to have descended on our country.

Or it might not. It might actually be one of the saddest things that cloud has brought.

I'm kind of on the fence on that one.


:shrug:

[JonQ]

13. Generally poverty isn't cited as a reason for a

*decrease* in crime.

[doc03]

15. That's sort of a local joke. When we brag about our

low crime rate we say the reason is we don't have anything worth stealing. Actually we haven't noticed much change in our economy in this recession, we have been in a recession here for like 30 years.

[TPaine7]

9. This phony "FBI data" can't fool me

I know that if there are more guns in ordinary hands and there are more ordinary people carrying guns "on the street" there will be more crime.

"It's axiomatic."

[Indy Lurker]

11. axiomatic

I've always preferred "intuitively obvious to the casual observer."

[taurus145]

12. Keep channeling

I like it

[JonQ]

14. Or maybe all those gun nuts

are conspiring against sensible gun control advocates by refraining from killing anyone for a while, so we'll be ok with less restrictive gun laws, so they can buy alot of guns and kill everyone in a few years.

[doc03]

16. Could be n/t

[SteveM]

17. Hmm. The chastity belt school of thought? nt