Interesting graphs and charts department

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Take that, Dan Quayle! </MurphyBrown>

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From Wikipedia

<snip>Despite being the headquarters of multiple federal law enforcement agencies
such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
the nationwide crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s greatly affected the city
and led to massive increases in crime.[1]

The number of homicides in Washington peaked in 1991 at 479,[2]
and the city eventually became known as the "murder capital" of the United States.[3]

The crime rate started to fall in the mid 1990s as the crack epidemic gave way
to economic revitalization projects. Gentrification efforts have also started to transform
the demographics of distressed neighborhoods, recently leading to the first rise
in the District's population in 60 years.[4]<snip>

[glatt]

I was watching Adventures in Babysitting over the long holiday weekend. I remembered it fondly and wanted my kids to see it. It's still a fun movie, but there's more swearing than I remembered. And Playboys.

Anyway, a major plot point of the movie was that they were going into the scary "city" at night. And they encountered all sorts of scary people there. I thought it was laughable, because I remember being afraid of the scary city when I was a teenager, but I'm not afraid of the city now. I mean, I brought my kids to a downtown club a month or two ago to catch a fun band. I kind of forgot that there was good reason to be afraid of "the city" back when Adventures in Babysitting came out. There was a tremendous amount of violent crime back then. It still exists in pockets today, but nothing like back then.

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Originally Posted by glatt

There was a tremendous amount of violent crime back then. It still exists in pockets today, but nothing like back then.

Is that a violent crime in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Try the buffet; it's a one-liner.

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There are somewhere around 200-, 250-, and 300-million guns in the US, depending on who/what you read.

Here's a pic graph of the distribution of guns in the US, by State.



But sometimes it's hard to get a visual image of large numbers, like how many is 250 million ?

It turns out there are about 250,000,000 automobiles currently registered in the US.
So for every car you see, there's a gun out there.