Re: Anti-gun Narrative Destroyed By Justice Dept. Report
Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:20 am
I believe the improving economy had the most to do with it.
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You need to get that tongue out of the cheek before you bite it.mojo84 wrote:I believe the improving economy had the most to do with it.
I'm not giving Slick credit for it, but I can't deny that the job situation and standard of living for most people I know was better in Clinton's second term than in Bush's second term, and much better than either of Obama's terms.anygunanywhere wrote:You need to get that tongue out of the cheek before you bite it.mojo84 wrote:I believe the improving economy had the most to do with it.
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Interesting. Hmmm.RHenriksen wrote: Anybody read Freakonomics? The drop in birthrate due to Roe v Wade's legalization of abortion has been held out as another reason for the drop in crime. Fewer males of prime-crime years.
For abortion to have that impact you would have to have seen a huge decline in the number of males in the U.S. between the ages of 15 and 24 from 1988 onward. Or is it that we didn't have as many "unwanted/out of wedlock" births after Roe v. Wade ? Nope, not there either, illegitimate births have risen from 11% of all births in 1970 to 41% of all births in 2009.C-dub wrote:Interesting. Hmmm.RHenriksen wrote: Anybody read Freakonomics? The drop in birthrate due to Roe v Wade's legalization of abortion has been held out as another reason for the drop in crime. Fewer males of prime-crime years.
I'm sure that the millions of tons of tetra-ethyl lead that was dumped into the air of our cities in the post-Great Depression era through the 80s and in some areas the 90s had an immeasurable negative impact on public health. Lead's toxicity and the results of over exposure are now well known,terryg wrote:Actually, there is a pretty strong link between the removal of lead from gasoline and violent crime rates:
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...even moderately high levels of lead exposure are associated with aggressivity, impulsivity, ADHD, and lower IQ. And right there, you've practically defined the profile of a violent young offender.