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good news rarely results in easily manipulated outrage.

2nd amendment supporters are wracking up some good case-law.

What's the deal with these cities trying shit that even a Canadian knows is unconstitutional?

2013 FBI annual crime report

1 Highlight the above sentence
2 Right click.
3 Choose "search with Google".
4. Choose top entry.

Results in the 2012 report.

hmmm you're right. It seems the latest report was compiled in Sept 2013, for 2012. So I guess we have to wait til Sept 2014 for the final 2013 report.

Got these from wikipedia tho:
1928: 399[6]
1965: 395[7]
1973: 864[8]
1974: 970[9]
1988: 660[10]
1989: 742[11]
1990: 851[12]
1991: 927[13]
1992: 943[13]
1993: 855[13]
1994: 931[13]
1995: 828[13]
1996: 796[13]
1997: 761[13]
1998: 704[13]
1999: 643[13]
2000: 633[13]
2001: 667[13]
2002: 656[13]
2003: 601[13]
2004: 453[13]
2005: 451[13]
2006: 471[13]
2007: 448[13]
2008: 513[13]
2009: 459[13]
2010: 436[13]
2011: 435[13]
2012: 516[14]
2013: 415[15]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago

Holy shit almost a 1000 homicides several times in the 90s. That's crazy. For whatever reason it start to skyrocket in the 60s, and peaked in the 90s. Since then it has declined back to about the levels of the days of Al Capone.