An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.
Both are true through. They are uncommon but also they are massively more common in the US.
You need to start slicing the data to make them both true - but yes. But what if, and I haven’t verified any numbers or anything, violent crimes committed by immigrants in the US were actually more common than mass shootings? Would you see it as a problem?
Do note that I’m being a devil’s advocate here - I’m not proposing any sort of rightness/wrongness or making any other conclusions. I’m just curious how much you’ve thought this through. I fully expect to just be insulted or something regardless.
You need to start slicing the data to make them both true - but yes. But what if, and I haven’t verified any numbers or anything, violent crimes committed by immigrants in the US were actually more common than mass shootings? Would you see it as a problem?
Do note that I’m being a devil’s advocate here - I’m not proposing any sort of rightness/wrongness or making any other conclusions. I’m just curious how much you’ve thought this through. I fully expect to just be insulted or something regardless.