Gun ownership in the U.S. is way up, and homicide rates are way down. You would not think that, based on the liberal media screaming for immediate disarmament, and the Democrat congress demanding gun confiscation. They insist they only want “common sense gun control,” but that is just code for confiscation. Look at places like Washington D.C., or liberal California where obtaining a gun is becoming more and more difficult.
John Lott was a Harvard professor of statistics who was adamantly anti-gun did some research, and low and behold, he also found that more guns meant less crime, so he wrote a book with the same name some years ago. The Left cannot refute the numbers, so they just ignore the statistical evidence. But it is out there, with sources like the FBI providing key numbers.
In 2014, the most recent year available, the FBI reported the U.S. homicide rate to be 4.5 deaths per 100,000 of population. In fact, homicide rates have fallen dramatically since about 1990, even as gun sales have been growing. One might argue that gun control laws have increased in that same period, thus gun control laws have helped to decrease the homicide numbers, even with the dramatic increase in gun ownership. However, by going back a few years to the 1950’s and 1960’s, it is seen that homicide rates were even lower at a time when gun control laws were virtually non-existent. Statistically speaking then, gun control laws cannot be shown to have any affect whatever on the homicide numbers.
If you ask most Americans today about the crime rate in the U.S. today, they will not be aware that the homicide rate is at a 50-year low.
See more graphs on gun violence on page 2:
homicide rate plummets to still ridiculously high rate of murders per capita. yea!!!
More people are killed with knives idiot.
Yes I’m Right If Congress In This Election Year Want To Prove To Americans That They Have Are Interest At Heart They Can Stand From Their Childish Sit In And Past The Following Bills Into Law.
!) War On Terrorism.
2) Ban On Refuges/Muslims
3) No Amnesty & Deport Illegal Aliens
4) Pass Kates’s Law
5) No Tax Dollars Spent On The Above Mention Groups
6) Arrest & Convict Hillary On Her Crimes Against Us & Our Country
7) Impeach Arrest & Convict Him Of Treason Against Us & Our Country
8) Both Sides Of The Isle Need To Support We The Peoples Choice: Donald J. Trump As Our Next President!
Hmmm? Could the socialist democrats have a not so hidden agenda with all the gun laws?!!!!!!
The bully is a coward, no matter what the reason. You show the bully resistance and he will back off. If the assassin, thief, school yard bully. or government oppressor know that you will fight back , they will stand down.
How many times are police bars robbed
Funny how that works.
The only TWO Major reasons we are not going through the same nightmares that have been taking place in France, Belgium, Great Brition, and Germany…an ocean and the fact that we have guns!! Obama and Hillary Clinton agree that they will bring in thousands of immigrants interspersed with terrorists into our country – one problem though, we have guns to protect ourselves – so they are pushing to take away our guns and transport more terrorists into our country! Once this is accomplished, then they have an open path to a ONE WORLD ORDER…this is their ultimate goal! How many times have we heard Obama, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton say we need bridges, not walls and a world without borders?
do they not realize the more they push to take the more we are gonna fight back .
don’t think it was suicide. it was planned to look like an accident.
Which is why they are importing millions of Muslims here and Europe so the bully doesn’t have to do his own fighting. The Muslim brotherhood is using the iris problem as the diversion to do this its world$#%&!@*and nothing else. This is why this president is trying so hard to grab guns from us. I know this all may sound like a bad b movie but if it is not true than why is the logic all pointing in this direction. Islam would never reach the world powers before now they can. First step is caous