People have been moving from the sticks since, forever. I challenge you to find any data that suggests otherwise.133743Hokie wrote:Are you saying people in the city and suburbs don't own guns? And I still believe nationwide there are still more people moving out of the city than into it. In any case, urban revitalization is a somewhat new phenomena . I think you are ignoring reality.ip_law-hokie wrote:People are moving from the country to the city and suburbs. Or the city and suburbs are moving to them. People in these environments don’t own firearms like they do in rural environments.133743Hokie wrote:My mistake. I meant "gun ownership" has dropped over the past 50 years.HokieFanDC wrote:133743Hokie wrote:HokieFanDC wrote: Yet we have fewer guns today than 50 years ago and there were no mass shootings at that time. So why, all of a sudden, in the past 15 or so years are we seeing a spate of mass shootings? What has changed in society over that time period?
I'm pretty sure we have more guns now, than 30 years ago. Certainly more now than 30 years ago.
Over the past 15 years, not sure what has changed. Maybe the number of semi-auto rifles sold?
"The household gun ownership rate has fallen from an average of 50 percent in the 1970s to 49 percent in the 1980s, 43 percent in the 1990s and 35 percent in the 2000s, according to the survey data, analyzed by The New York Times."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/us/ra ... shows.html
What has changed since then? Disintegration of the family unit? Lack of respect for rules, laws and authority? Coddling of children? Latchkey kids? Disintegration of morals and values? Growth and exploitation of gore, death and violence in entertainment? Desensitization to violence? On and on and on. Essentially society at large has backslid.
I think you are trying too hard and ignoring the obvious.
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And yes, people in more urban environments don’t own guns at the same rate as people in the sticks.
None of this is controversial.
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