This is what the Greentards and all gun grabbers and associated hoplophobes see;
Wow! we've saved thousands of people, victory comrades!
This is what I see; I society that didnt suddenly change during 1996/97(big fat arrow).
Although the trends can be interpreted in many way, include outliers, remove outliers curved trend straight etc....
-Looking at the yellow total homicide line, the ALWAYS disregarded by the grabbers total rate (because it includes non-firearm! and non-firearm deaths are insignificant to these tards) You can interpret a reducing trend per the line or even if you disregard the outlier from 1988, the rate clearly starts dropping after 1992, even with the PAM contribution.
-Non firearm homicide, again, if you look at the trend from 88 to 98 there is a clear relatively uninterrupted trend. THEN is the rate increasing?? for 6 or 7 years? One thing is also clear, again smoothing out for the +/- outliers the rate is consistent through to 2003/04.
-So considering the blue line (the thin blue line....) firearm homicide, I don't really need to say too much, but my random trend line sticks pretty darn close to the data points from 1983 to 2008!!!
One interesting point, if you entirely disregard the contribution from Port Arthur during 1996, the trend (data point at centre of star), would have been identical AND if you turn back to 1995 and created a 'prognostication' of firearm homicide rate, you may have come up with THE SAME TREND LINE UP TO 2008!!!!
but in fact, with the lull in the rate from 93 to 95, it may have pulled the trend further southward, and produced an even lower estimate; ie. PAM laws = higher effective firearm homicide rate! Does that mean the laws "should be more stringent"?? or where all those drowned out voices that warned more tougher laws will make it easier for the outlaws to perpetrate crime, correct? All up to interpretation now. One thing is for sure; this wont be discussed in the mainstream media.