But good luck being a rational, systematically murdered society.
US murder rates have been on a steady decline since 1980. Violent crime in the US has similarly declined over the past thirty years to near record lows.
Don't worry, we are still a violent culture. Always have been. But we have been becoming less and less violent even as the ownership of guns, and the power of those guns, has increased dramatically, almost out of all proportion. How do we reconcile this?
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Date: 4/10/17 21:09 (UTC)US murder rates have been on a steady decline since 1980. Violent crime in the US has similarly declined over the past thirty years to near record lows.
Don't worry, we are still a violent culture. Always have been. But we have been becoming less and less violent even as the ownership of guns, and the power of those guns, has increased dramatically, almost out of all proportion. How do we reconcile this?