Numbers Are In And Crime Doesn’t Seem To Be Increasing

By Tom Knighton

Anti-gun activists claim we simply must do something, guns are killing us at an increasing rate. They argue that even if you ignore mass shootings–something they seem pathologically incapable of doing–more and more people are still being killed with firearms. We simply must do something!

Well, there is data collected to see if they’re right. The National Crime Victimization Survey takes a look at all the different ways people are victimized by criminals and compares them to previous years.

It looks like the massive increase in crime only exists in some people’s heads.

2. The NCVS measures crime in various ways: total incidents, total victims (the prevalence) and just “serious” violence.

For all three measures, we see roughly similar patterns: robbery down, other non-rape violence up but weakly, rape up by about 66% to 80%. pic.twitter.com/J6DpbZqCXT

— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) September 10, 2019

* For those unfamiliar with “statistical significance.” It’s a… tricky term. But the basic idea is: if you were to pick ten ppl out of the same pool of 100 ppl several times, the average weight per sample would differ each time, just by chance.

— John Pfaff (@JohnFPfaff) September 10, 2019

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