Guns and Crime

Here is some information that you are not going to hear from the state run media...

The crime stats from the first half of 2009 are in...

• Murder (down 10.0 percent);
• Forcible rape (down 3.3 percent);
• Robbery (down 6.5 percent);

• The 2009 crime statistics are preliminary; the final report will be issued next year. Past full-year reports: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | More - More About the Uniform Crime Reports (Statistics) - Frequently Asked Questions

  Aggravated assault (down 3.2 percent);
• Burglary (down 2.5 percent);
• Larceny-theft (down 5.3 percent); and
• Motor vehicle theft (down 18.7 percent).

All of this while gun ownership and people applying for concealed handgun carry permits are up.

Quote:
Concurrently, the FBI reports that gun sales – especially of assault-style rifles and handguns, two main targets of gun-control groups – are up at least 12 percent nationally since the election of President Obama.

More RTC, (right to carry) less crime: Since 1991, 23 states have adopted RTC laws, replacing laws that prohibited carrying or that issued carry permits on a very restrictive basis; many other federal, state, and local gun control laws have been eliminated or made less restrictive; and the number of privately-owned guns has risen by about 90 million. There are more RTC states, gun owners, people carrying firearms for protection, and privately owned firearms than ever before. In the same time frame, the nation's murder rate has decreased 46 percent to a 43-year low, and the total violent crime rate has decreased 41 percent to a 35-year low. RTC states have lower violent crime rates, on average, compared to the rest of the country (total violent crime by 24 percent; murder, 28 percent; robbery, 50 percent; and aggravated assault, 11 percent).

The above paragraph is from the NRA's web site.

I am sure that the anti-gun politicians are having a coronary because this information flies in the face of what they WANT you to believe, not what is ACTUALLY happening.

Over Christmas, one of my relatives made the comment..."I don't like guns, they hurt people." I gave him an oldie but a goodie... "Guns don't kill people...people kill people." Still to this day, I have never heard a single story or news event where a gun just got up on it's own and starting hurting people.

Done for now...

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