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More Guns Equal Less Crime Across the USA in 2010

More Guns Equal Less Crime Across the USA:Full Report: FBI Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June, 2010

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MANDEVILLE, LA --(Ammoland.com)- The FBI released its crime stats for the first half of 2010.

We have more guns, more concealed carry folks, and we are almost six years past the expiration of the stupid Clinton “assault weapon” ban.

The last two years have seen record increases in gun sales. So, with all these guns, how bad has crime gotten?

It will come as no surprise to those with more than a room-temperature IQ that crime continues to go down. According to the FBI, violent crime is down 6.2 percent over the same period in 2009, and homicide is down 7.1 percent. Further, robberies are down 10.7 percent, rapes down 6.2 percent, aggravated assaults down 3.9 percent, and burglaries dropped 1.4 percent.

Crime stats are subject to “tweaking” by police departments (who have been knows to downgrade crimes as a way of improving their performance numbers), but these are impressive numbers.

Just a touch more food for thought . . . homicides rose in the Northeast (can you say “harder to get a carry permit?”), but took a dramatic 12-percent dive in the South with expanded access to guns, like constitutional carry in Arizona.

It’s not possible to directly attribute these drops in crime to the increase in guns — there are just too many variables at work. But, we can say with absolute certainty that more ARs, more pistols, (we’ve seen two years of record gun sales), and more people carrying guns for their own protection (Alaska and Arizona removed the requirement for a permit!) has NOT resulted in an increase in violent crime or homicide.

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Bad News For Brady Gun Grabbers

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Natchitoches, La - -(AmmoLand.com)- The Brady Campaign — which used to be called Handgun Control, Inc. — has claimed for some time that it had a half-million members.

Not all that impressive compared to the NRA, which has almost four million. But, 500,000 is a lot of people.

If it’s true. But, it looks as though it’s not.

Now that they are on hard financial times (donations are way down), the Brady Campaign has offered its member list out for rent.

(Wait, when you join, doesn’t it say that the Brady Bunch will not sell or rent your name???)

Brady Campaign

In order to offer the list to companies, the Brady Campaign must, of course, tell how many names are on it. After all, the companies which rent the list will count them, right?

So, it finally come out that the member list is not 500,000 stalwarts who want to “control” guns. It’s not even 250,000. It’s about 50,000, or only ten percent of what they have been claiming.

I guess guns aren’t the only thing they have trouble telling the truth about.

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Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk Radio is in its 15th year of national syndication and runs on 94 stations, plus SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio. All Gun Talk shows are available as a podcast through Apple iTunes or at www.guntalk.libsyn.com. More information is available at www.guntalk.com

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