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:
Kelly Cahill St Clair
AS gun ownership and CCW “good guys” increase crime and rapes will decrease !
Tyler Tpz Pruitt. It’s a short article.
2nd amendment the teeth of the bill of rights.Without all other rights would soon be gone.That is why the sick parasitic socialist constantly attack it.Their intent and goal is to disarm and enslave all freedom loving Americans.These leftist don’t care about the facts or the truth.They lie,cheat,and fabricate all forms of false and misleading stories to move forward their evil agenda.All Americans should guard their rights,and punish those harshly,that wish to deny us of our right to due process of law
Lamestream media # NEVER ever TRUST. Be safe buy more guns
Uh, no Mike. That, the law says is “done on purpose” and all.
The media is owned by the top one percent that say they own us and there world. What do you think American people?
No they don’t
America is preparing to protect themselves
Mike Kister. Say the advances in our military is so advanced that like Obama said one time you won’t see it coming. Our only option now is to know who these criminals are and remove them now. If and when marshal law comes in if we can prevent it. We may have a chance stopping this in the next election. Wake up and know who the lawlessness is coming from. It may be to late. They are protected by out tax dollars and like a machine nows not right from wrong. It’s our machine controlled by a virus we need to remove the viruses. It’s that simple. Our gov. Is infected.