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:
Google it, that took the last reply off
The media is all liberal garbage.
There’s your problem. The first two items on your list, brains and common sense. The liberals don’t have those. I just haven’t figured out if they start out that way. Or if they are required to get a lobotomy after joining the party.
Eddie Little Bear HELL I THINK THEY ALREADY HAVE FRONTAL LOBOTOMIES LIKE JOSEPH KENNEDY HAD THE HOSPITAL IN WI. DO TO HIS DAUGHTER ROSEMARYBECAUSE HE DID NOT APPROVE OF HER ACTIONS .
oh boy, Libtards heads exploding with these facts HaHa
Me too, but only a handful will even listen to reason. Dems are sheep. Wonder what all of those UN troops that arrived in Texas last night are planning today? Most people listen to or watch MSM and are basically clueless. They win`t believe it till the UN comes knocking down their door.
Pssst.. The U.S gov doesn’t need to take your guns.. Your guns are useless. 🙂
So many treasonous people.
That’s because the violent crimes are mostly by Democrat & Liberals
I think that the guy in the pic is aiming a pellet gun; good luck with that if you don’t hit him in the eye.