New study on gun violence/homicides published.

[Sogaard]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

[burmjohn]

Lets see how they spin that. 

[Setters4life]

This information has been available for years. All anyone has to do is go look for it so as to be informed. You can find the FBI's compilation of the nation's UCR's right on their website. The national murder rate per 100,000 has been going down for years. Despite a population growth of 100 million more people in the nation since 1970:
 

   

Imagine that, a murder rate going down over the span of forty years despite more guns and more people being added to America.

What has been relentless in America has been the constant stream of in-your-face sensationalistic news reporting and the immediacy of how quickly in today's information age it can be delivered. The talking puppet-heads who deliver the news are as repulsive as the bad news itself. Say it enough times, over and over, and it must be true. And the media only parrots what the politicians are saying to enforce their message.

Per the FBI, 16 mass shootings occurred in America in 2012, killing 88 people. Yes, all were tragic. But that's a very small percentage when you compare it to the general population of 312 million. Based on those numbers, you had a 1 in 17 million chance of being involved in mass shooting last year. The odds of being struck by lightning in a given year is 1 in 1,000,000 per the National Weather Service. 

Statistics don't lie. So where is all this gun violence? Contained to certan geographic areas? When are our elected officials going to be tasked to elaborate on their assertions when their own reporting, which is public information, tells us otherwise?