From 1950-1995, the number of people killed or wounded by fireararms has doubled each year?

Question

true or false, and why?

i need it for my history class by tomorrow

Answer 1

I seriously doubt it.  At that rate, it becomes exponential.  After 50 years of constant doubling, the total number of people killed or wounded would have increased by 3.52 x 10^13 fold.

That means that if 1 person was killed by a gun in 1950, then 35,200,000,000,000 were wounded or killed in 1995.  That is obviously more people than there are in the entire world.

The answer is definitely no (unless I did the math wrong)

Answer 2

You might want to move this post to  police section if you are looking for this answer for in the US.

Answer 3

One thing many people will leave out in your class is that the population increased very much between 1950 and 1995.

If there were 100 people and 5 deaths by firearms versus 500 people and 25 deaths by firearms, it would basically be the same. Make sure to take that into effect.

Answer 4

FALSE!

Take a look at

FBI Uniform Crime Reports

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

I pulled up 1995.  It shows the five previous years.

Scan thru section II.

You will see a chart labled 5.1

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/Cius_97/95CRIME/9...

It has stayed the same over several years disproving the question.

Why?  Even with more weapons out there, they continue to ONLY be in a controlled population of bad people.  Most own them responsibly!

EDIT - Wayne, the FBI site has murders by weapon used including poison and by hand!

Answer 5

In the US?  In the world?

EDIT:  Yeah I thought about it for a second, toms1266 is right, there's no way it's possible.

Answer 6

I will guess false.

This is a gimme and does not address your question fully. Crime stats are kept by category not weapons used.

The murder numbers took 24 years to double and never got higher than 24000 and change. 93 was a bad year.

Good Luck!

Answer 7

False, thats called liberal propganda. Why? Because I worked as a federal LEO and the stats from the FBI say otherwise. Go to FBIdot gov and look into there crime stats and see what I am talking about. I wont spell it out for you if this is for a class. The poster called DC makes an interesting remark that is a fact. The increase of population needs to be adjusted along with statistics but this is where you get the  left spreading it's lies. IF you want to better understand lets look at the unemployments rate. Many love to say that Bush is the reason for the stats of this. What CNN, Kieth Olberman, Chris Matthews, Bill Mahr all forget to tell you is that these stats are at an all time high during the months of June, July and Aug. What does that have to so with anything? Simple, the numbers of unemployment claimes also take into account the thousands of kids who work summer work programs and all those who work for 4 weeks, quit and collect benefits. This is why understanding statistics needs to be applied before showing the world these pumped up numbers. I hope this helps you understand better and guide you in your quest for thr truth. Lets just hpe your teacher doesn't already have a biase against guns cause in that case even if you hand him/her the actual report from the FBI it will still be wrong.

Answer 8

False

Not that it is really any of my business, but is this really what teachers consider to be "History"?  Seems more like sociology.