Did the 2020 Sales Increase in Firearms' Directly Contribute to Increase in Shootings/Murders? - No.

[RicInOR]

The Paradox of the 2020 Gun-Sales Spike

"Now we have national data to update both the geographic and the gun-trace findings. Oddly enough, they both hold up. Comparing all of 2020 with all of 2019, the states with the biggest gun-sales spikes were not the same as the states with the biggest homicide spikes. "



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Were Strong Gun Sales to Blame for 2020’s Violence?

Gun sales in the U.S. exploded last year, first when the Covid-19 pandemic reached our shores and again when the death of George Floyd set off a wave of protests and violence in cities. Some commentators maintain that these sales in fact fueled the violence—a theory that fits nicely with some...

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[red442joe]

No.

Joe

 

[308]

The stats at heyjackass.com kinda say they just like killing each other as normal every day sort of business.

 

[ilostmypswrd]

NOPE

 

[L84Cabo]

See, the massive civil unrest, coupled by an equally massive stand-down by law enforcement, and the massive push by idiot politicians and equally stupid public to, "defund the police," had absolutely NOTHING to do with the increase in crime. Not one single thing.

It was all the guns.