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Originally Posted by Danzig
here's an excerpt from an article about crime stats:
'The last time the crime rate for serious crime – murder, rape, robbery, assault – fell to these levels, gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon and the average income for a working American was $5,807.
That was 1963.
In the past 20 years, for instance, the murder rate in the United States has dropped by almost half, from 9.8 per 100,000 people in 1991 to 5.0 in 2009. Meanwhile, robberies were down 10 percent in 2010 from the year before and 8 percent in 2009.'
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Good. Then let's help it along in a big way, by reinstituting the assault rifle ban. Nobody needs an assault rifle any more than they need bazookas or tanks. I'm all in favor of purchasing pistols, automatics and hunting rifles. But I want a waiting period on everything, and bans on large magazines.