Wall Street Journal – by JASON L. RILEY
A new FBI report says that violent crime continues to fall nationwide, which might annoy liberals because gun purchases continue to rise.
In the first six months of 2013, murders fell by nearly 7 percent, compared with the same period in 2012. Aggravated assaults fell by 6.6 percent, and robberies are down 1.8 percent. “All of the offenses in the violent crime category—murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault, and robbery—showed decreases when data from the first six months of 2013 were compared with data from the first six months of 2012,” according to the FBI. Overall, violent crime in the U.S. fell by 5.4 percent. Burglaries, larceny and auto thefts also decreased.
The left likes to link violent crime to the proliferation of guns in the country, so it’s worth noting that the crime reductions described in the FBI report correlate with a steady increase in firearm sales. “Gun records checks, fueled by a post-Newtown boom of gun sales, hit a new high in 2013, and industry analysts expect ammunition to be the big seller this year as consumers catch up to all of those firearms purchases,” reported the Washington Times last month. “More than 21 million applications were run through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System last year, marking nearly an 8 percent increase and the 11th straight year that the number has risen.”
It’s also worth noting that gun-ownership rates in the Midwest (39 percent) and South (50 percent) far exceed gun-ownership rates in the Northeast (22 percent), yet violent crime is down more in the Midwest and South than it is in the Northeast, according to the FBI statistics. And rural areas, where gun-ownership rates also are higher than average, saw a larger reduction in violent crime that metropolitan areas, where gun-ownership rates are lower than average.
Not that gun-control zealots, who are so certain of a causal link between firearms and violent crime rates, care about such details.
An armed society is a polite society. No matter what you throw at the gun control nuts they will still say guns are the problem. They will also be the ones crawling on their knees for us to protect them when the shtf.
As we well know gun registration is the first of many more requirements that will in time cause an attempt to confiscate firearms. I am not a gun owner and never have been but I do respect the Constitution and yes I know all of the ten Bill of Rights and a few extra amendments. History has demonstrated that in time every country that lost their guns resulted in millions of deaths to the people from their governments. I could list examples but I am sure many of you know this and those that are not aware can research it in a few minutes.
Criminals don’t obey laws by the fact they are criminals but studies show that guns do have a positive effect on crime. Police are known for showing up after the event not before and many a citizen has saved their own life or the life of a family member or even strangers by being in the right place at the right time with a weapon namely a gun. Guns are not the problem people are and I can prove it.
How many drunk drivers have killed someone the numbers are very high, yet I never heard of any law or registration of drunks to prevent them nor the confiscation of alcohol. Cars kill many people but they don’t outlaw them or do background checks. Why not? Because at no time was either alcohol or cars deemed the problem the person drinking or driving was. So too here the guns are not the problem it’s the nutcase that has a beef with someone. The mass shootings are either planned events by agencies that have an agenda, or someone on psychotropic drugs and often someone that can not control rages.
It’s time to be honest the statistics are in the areas most likely to have an event are gun free areas. Who in their right mind would plan an attack on a heavily armed area? Let’s return to reason and logic for a change.
Simple math…….
+ guns = – crime.
Not rocket science.