Murder not a top cause of death, a first in 45 yrs

ap ^ | jan 11, 2012 | MIKE STOBBE

[george76]

For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top causes of death... the murder rate fell enough in 2010 to drop it out of the top 15 causes.

Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down

[george76]

An armed society is ...

[FlingWingFlyer]

Exactly. As gun purchases soared, murder rates fell.

[edpc]

Are Obama’s policies at the top of the list?

[Albion Wilde]

Because people are living longer, and because abortion is so prevalent among younger people, there are proportionately more older people than before; hence a statistically different proportion of death causes.

[WOBBLY BOB]

they’re saving “Death Panels” as # 1 for his 2nd term.

[Ransomed]

Must be just among those already born.

Freegards

[oh8eleven]

For the first time in 45 years
That's about the same time the (not so) Great Society began.
I guess it finally got to the point where they ran out of victims.

[mountainlion]

15 million guns sold this year and something like 120,000 in one day in December. Hunters in some of the eastern states are larger than the armies of several tin pot dictators.

[SpringtoLiberty]

I’m guessing this list dosen’t count the MILLIONS of Americans murdered in utero every year.

But praise God the 5th district court upheld the Tx songrm law

[AlmaKing]

As concealed carry laws have taken effect, murder rates have fallen. John Lott’s work details this effectively, More Guns Less Crime.

[Eastbound]

". . Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down "

They must have created a new category for beheadings, bombings and other terrorist acts that result in murder/death.

/sarc

[pierrem15]

7,225,800 adults were under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) in 2009.

[pierrem15]

What demographic correlation approaches 1.0 in your chart? /s

[oh8eleven]

And we didn’t even need to see a chart to know it.

[blueunicorn6]

I lived in a place where the sheriff boasted that he solved 100% of his cases. They found a body and he couldn’t solve it, so he came out with, “I have ruled this a suicide. This man stabbed himself in the back 15 times.” Kept a straight face all through the press conference.

[mt tom]

I’m willing to bet that these top ten cities have one common denominator. does anyone have a good guess and the first two will be the same

[ArmstedFragg]

Expert agree, it’s down to two possible reasons:

1. Fewer people are killing each other.

or

2. More people are dying of other stuff.

The experts will be applying for a 25 million dollar grant to determine which it is.

[familyop]

"Criminologists have not reached a consensus about what's been driving murder rates down..."

That's because they're liars. Their predecessors knew that an aging population would cause the trend. Criminologists want to help their professional and political friends to rob old folks (not as likely recidivists) and their few heirs of their properties. They laughingly call such actions, "politics" (been there).

[Valpal1]

Don’t be so rational.

[OhhTee5]

How about 3 Strikes and You Are Out?

Remember how badly the lame stream media and the liberals screamed about this “horrible law”?

Crime rates started dropping almost immediately since it was implemented and this current statistic is probably a continuing result of it.

Of course, you never hear the credit given to it. It would mean the press and the libs were 100% wrong....again.