The Lonely ConservativeSomebody alert Mayor Bloomberg and his comrades trying to disarm law abiding Americans – gun crimes dropped in Virginia when gun sales rose. What a shock. I guess it’s hard to rape, rob or kill someone who is armed.
Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is experiencing a unique trend: the state’s gun-related crime is declining but firearms sales are increasing.
Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from licensed gun dealers in 2012, according to sales estimates obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
During the same period, major crimes committed with firearms dropped 5 percent to 4,378.
“This appears to be additional evidence that more guns don’t necessarily lead to more crime,” said Thomas R. Baker, an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs who specializes in research methods and criminology theory. (Read More)
But of course, we’re cautioned not to draw any conclusions from this news. Heaven forbid.