As 2024 comes to a close, a lot of people are going to look back on the year. This is common and I can’t say that we won’t do it, either. I guess it’s some aspect of human nature that drives us to do this and I’m not remotely critical of it. After all, I’m a history buff, so I do it on slightly broader time periods.
But far too many people will look back without any real context or any desire to look beyond their preconceived notions.
I’m talking about Vox, where it seems someone decided to look back at the year with regard to so-called gun violence. It’s just too bad they glossed over just about everything.
If you follow the news about gun violence in America, you know that there’s a lot to be pessimistic about.
Guns were already a major public health concern when the pandemic hit and the murder rate skyrocketed. The surge in homicide in 2020 and 2021, research has shown, was best understood as a surge in gun violence, with firearms-related deaths counting for the majority of the increase. Not all communities suffered equally: In 2020, 61 percent of victims of gun homicide were Black, with the largest increases among boys and men ages 10–44. The following year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, the number of mass shootings — shootings in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are shot and injured or killed — reached 689, up more than 50 percent from the number of mass shootings in 2018.
And then the Supreme Court issued a ruling that functionally allowed all Americans to carry weapons in public. Coming on the heels of an awful rise in gun violence, experts warned that it would almost certainly get worse.
But that hasn’t really happened. Some of the worst-case scenarios, based on the recent trends around gun violence, haven’t yet come to pass. To be clear, the United States still has exceptionally high levels of gun violence. The country has more guns per capita than any other nation on Earth, and a messy patchwork of laws that make regulation extremely difficult. For those reasons, the country is still incredibly vulnerable to seeing more gun-related deaths in the future.
This is, to me, the big story. Vox was right to put this near the beginning because Bruen was touted as the end of the republic by some, all because no suddenly we’d be the Wild West with gunfights happening daily, with people gunning down others over perceived slights, and even Vox has to acknowledge that none of that happened. […]
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