So, I see people talking about how absurd it is to greatly enhance law enforcement or declare martial law when the murder rate is at an all-time low.

(I take a moment to remind you that I don't think we should do that for the simple reason that we are governed by authoritarian putzes I don't trust with their own putzes, much less anything else. But that's not the point.)

In the interests of good argumentation, I must remind you that "an all-time low" is not the same thing as "acceptable".

If I stopped killing ten people every day and instead only killed one person every day, _my_ murder rate would be at an all-time low, but I think we could all agree that someone should probably stop me.

(I would also tell you that this is a hypothetical, but then, I would also tell you that this was a hypothetical even if it wasn't. You'll just have to trust my non-murdery self.)