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I'm not in the "games have no affect on kids" camp, but I'm also not a fan of "saying violent crimes committed by kids is way up" with no evidence camp.

Because they're actually way down from their height in 1994.

https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
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I'm not in the "games have no affect on kids" camp, but I'm also not a fan of "saying violent crimes committed by kids is way up" with no evidence camp.

Because they're actually way down from their height in 1994.

https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...

I'm not in the "games have no affect on kids" camp, but I'm also not a fan of "saying violent crimes committed by kids is way up" with no evidence camp.

Because they're actually way down from their height in 1994.

https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb...

A: Grenades and fire support, for example. ;)
More seriously in a law enforcement context: Talking them down, assuming you even try, works more often than not.
B: Criminals in the USA don't arm themselves to confront cops. They generally arm themselves to project force on their victims, or defend themselves against other criminals. As such, disarming cops isn't going to change criminal carry rates much at all.

Programs that HAVE worked is things like advertising* that carrying a gun while committing a crime will automatically add five years to the prison sentence. Targeting illegal guns also works.

Roughly 100,000 years of human history in which it was done one way and worked, compared with 50 years of sexual liberation where youth descended into ramapnt suicide, depression, crime and delinquency.

Hmmm... self-destructive deaths among teens rose from the 1950s to the 1970s, then generally declined.Teen-age suicides peaked in 1977 with 13.3 deaths per 100,000.

Your "facts" are wrong. Rather than descending into depression and suicide, depression and suicide peaked almost 40 years ago, before the "gay liberation". What about crime and delinquency?

Juvenile arrest rates were flat until 1987, peaked in 1995, and have been dropping since.

You may not realize it, but before 1900 maternal death rates were horrendous. Many, many children were motherless because their mothers died birthing their sibling. Then there were horriffic wars that caused fatherless children... and diseases that made children motherless, fatherless, and often orphaned.

Your logic is as wrong as your facts. Your ignorance of juvinile depression and crime rates is as bad as your ignorance of history.

The juvenile population in the U.S., like the overall population, has trended pretty steadily upward (making the decline in juvenile arrests even more impressive). For example:

In 1996 there were 269 million juveniles in the U.S.
In 2000 there were 282 million juveniles in the U.S.
In 2008 there were 304 million juveniles in the U.S.

Here is the source, so you can look for yourself.

The numbers have been dropping since the mid-90's (as I said, about 12-15 years after the "get tough on crime" stuff began in the early 80's), From the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP):

Here is the data from 1996 to 2000, showing a 15% drop in total juvenile arrests between 1996 and 2000.

Here is the data from 1998-2008, showing a 16% drop in total juvenile arrests between 1998 and 2008.

And, you're right, correlation is not causation. But SOMETHING is clearly changed. Juveniles born after the early 80's are much less likely to become juvenile delinquents than juveniles born before that period.

The numbers have been dropping since the mid-90's (as I said, about 12-15 years after the "get tough on crime" stuff began in the early 80's), From the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP):

Here is the data from 1996 to 2000, showing a 15% drop in total juvenile arrests between 1996 and 2000.

Here is the data from 1998-2008, showing a 16% drop in total juvenile arrests between 1998 and 2008.

And, you're right, correlation is not causation. But SOMETHING is clearly changed. Juveniles born after the early 80's are much less likely to become juvenile delinquents than juveniles born before that period.