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Another church shooting today. This one in Lexington,KY. Police officer shot and last i heard 2 dead in church, several injured. Gunman is dead.
 
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C-south said:
If we banned guns and/or made it harder for everyone to get a gun criminals would have no choice but to go along.
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I know your being sarcastic, but it still makes me crackle
MAD said:
America will only wake up if we get another 9/11 type event unfortunately.
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Sadly, I doubt it would still happen; we'd get patriotic for like a week and then most of the country wouldn't care again.....
W.TN.Orange Blood said:
Looks like a little ole church somewhere out in no man's land.

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Weirdly this makes it alot worse. It looks like a very small rural church, kinda makes it hit home harder!
 
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Most of the “violent crime is down” statistics that I have seen use the peak of the crack epidemic as the base year, making the statement true, but not very encouraging.
 
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VAVol85 said:
Most of the “violent crime is down” statistics that I have seen use the peak of the crack epidemic as the base year, making the statement true, but not very encouraging.
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I hate how Gavin Newsome is posting all over twitter about Californias homocide rate being lower than other states. It is the most ridiculous stat. We know who commits the majority of murders. It is males between the ages of 18-50. Homicide rate is artificially lowered by counting kids, women, and the wlderly.
 
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I'm surprised by the lack of posts about the Chattanooga shooting a day or so ago .4 people shot ..nothing..wonder why??
 
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VAVol85 said:
Most of the “violent crime is down” statistics that I have seen use the peak of the crack epidemic as the base year, making the statement true, but not very encouraging.
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What I'm looking at in 2019 (pre covid) had the rate at 5.58. From there
'20 7.22
'21 7.75
'22 7.48
'23 6.8
'24 Harder to lock down a number on this one but the AI returned "just under 5"

We've still got a ways to go but apparently '25 is on pace for the lowest homicide rate since 1960.

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VAVol85 said:
Most of the “violent crime is down” statistics that I have seen use the peak of the crack epidemic as the base year, making the statement true, but not very encouraging.
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They continued trending down for nearly 3 decades post crack epidemic until Covid. Seems very encouraging. Not sure what you’re talking about

Edit: I should’ve said until the 2016 BLM nonsense, then worsened during Covid. Also the rate in the 1980s was even higher
 
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Vol8188 said:
They continued trending down for nearly 3 decades post crack epidemic until Covid. Seems very encouraging. Not sure what you’re talking about

Edit: I should’ve said until the 2016 BLM nonsense, then worsened during Covid. Also the rate in the 1980s was even higher
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Even as crime was trending up after BLM, people would argue that it was down because it was less than the crack epidemic. I thought the “not as bad as the worst” argument was disingenuous.
 
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VAVol85 said:
Even as crime was trending up after BLM, people would argue that it was down because it was less than the crack epidemic. I thought the “not as bad as the worst” argument was disingenuous.
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Also less than the 1980s. But now post BLM nonsense it’s started to trend back downward.

But the overall trend has been America has became safer despite more guns
 
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