BELLEVUE, WA –-(Ammoland.com)- The FBI’s semi-annual uniform crime data for the first half of 2013 confirms once again what the firearms community already knew, that violent crime has continued to decline while gun sales have continued to climb.
The report says murders declined 6.9 percent from the first half of 2012, while aggravated assaults dropped by 6.6 percent nationwide and robberies were down 1.8 percent. Forcible rapes declined 10.6 percent from the same period in 2012 and overall, violent crime fell by 10.6 percent in non-metropolitan counties and 3.6 percent in metropolitan counties.
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This new information reinforces the notion that not only do guns save lives, their presence in the hands and homes of law-abiding citizens just might be a deterrent to crime. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has been reporting a steady increase in firearm sales for the past few years.
Taken as a whole, one cannot help but conclude that the predictions from gun prohibitionists that more guns leads to more crime have been consistently wrong.
The tired argument from the anti-gun lobby that more firearms in the hands of private citizens would result in sharp increases in violence has run out of traction. Not only has the decline in crime corresponded with an increase in gun sales, it also coincides with a steady rise in the number of citizens obtaining concealed carry licenses and permits.
The FBI report says burglaries and auto theft have also decreased and it is impossible to look at this pattern and not suggest that increased gun ownership just might be one contributing factor. Gun prohibitionists would, of course, dismiss that suggestion as poppycock, but you can bet your life savings that if the data was reversed, and violent crime had risen, the gun control lobby would be rushing to every available microphone declaring that guns were to blame.
This continuing pattern brings up a pertinent question. If the gun ban lobby has been so wrong about more guns resulting in more crime, what else have they been wrong about? The word ‘everything’ comes to mind. One thing about criminal predators is that they don’t want to risk getting shot by an intended victim.
We currently have over twenty open court cases throughout the United States defending our Second Amendment.
We earned multiple victories in the court systems throughout 2013. These victories ranged from challenges to a public housing gun ban along with multiple victories to protect conceal carry laws in separate states. We hope to close many more of these cases in 2014.
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Hello Allan Gottlieb
I read your blog and strongly agree with the idea that more gun control does not equal less crime or violence, as well as the support of concealed carry.
In fact, I wrote a paper of my own on this topic and was wondering if you wouldn’t mind reading it at https://sites.isucomm.iastate.edu/njreding/guns-friend-or-foe-2/? I would appreciate any feedback you could give.
Nathan Reding
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The Green Room at Iowa State University
The liberal media may more than willingly state that the crime rate has fallen, but you can be sure they’ll never attribute it to gun sales being up.
Except in Colorado…Gov. Hickenlooper claims the new Universal or Expanded Criminal Back Ground Check sytem is working…This law mandates and includes all private gun sales in the state of Colorado…You can’t even give your sidearm to your wife for home protection…Why…Because she doesn’t own it…You have to take your wife and your gun to an FFL dealer and have the gun signed over to her…Once at home…Now you yourself can not legally use her firearm either…You need go buy yourself another sidearm and keep it away from her so she won’t be tempted to use it…Yes…Colorado’s new laws are so… Read more »