Why did gun control become a worldwide trend in the 90s?
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Question: Why did gun control become a worldwide trend in the 90s?
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the fall of Communism left house wives unsure what to be afraid of next, they chose guns		  
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the fall of Communism brought a bunch of guns/crime to the west, something had to be done		  
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because of lead gasoline		  
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because of bad parenting		  
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the drug war was at it's hottest, something had to be done		  
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immigration?		  
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the ozone layer?  I'm running out of ideas		  
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there really wasn't a trend		  
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this is a stupid question <keep in mind it's not my question>		  
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other reasons		  
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the author of this quiz just doesn't get it		  
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« on: November 26, 2019, 09:52:22 AM »
I was hoping this question was loaded, but if it was, the person that asked it lost interest in the back swing.  So what did cause the trend (if there was one)?
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2019, 12:40:30 PM »
Didn't homicides peak in most Western countries around 1991?
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2019, 03:56:16 PM »
Crime was huge in the 90's, much worse than it was today.

Also, this was the time when in America at least, there was Waco and the militia movement mess. That basically jump started the gun debate in US national politics.
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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2019, 04:06:16 PM »
What evidence is there of such a trend?

At an international level, I know there were some new international treaties in the 1990s to regulate the illicit small arms trade.  With the collapse the USSR, I guess the international small arms trade stopped being a proxy front in the Cold War.
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« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2019, 01:40:15 AM »
No "you just don't get it dead0" option? Sad
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« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2019, 11:43:18 AM »
the last one
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« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2019, 12:21:29 PM »
The leaded gasoline probably caused brain damage in future gun control proponents.
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« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2019, 05:07:45 AM »
We had mass murders in the 70s and 80s from Jeffery Dalhmer to Gacy, but at the turn of the century, mass murders were a thing of the past; consequently,  terrorism started the next trend, after 911, to curb gun violence
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