Uh oh... 
Posted on 03/29/2010 11:45:58 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Sometimes what makes a particular story interesting is its source. This story from MSNBC is one of those stories. The most liberal of the lame-stream media is reporting that the more guns owned by private citizens, the fewer deaths due to fire arms. Yes THAT MSNBC.
According to the MSNBC.com report, in the 1980s and 1990s, Americans were killed by guns at a rate of about 5.66 per 100,000 population, at the time the concealed-carry movement (carrying a handgun or other weapon in public in a concealed manner) began gaining momentum.
The report explains that in the past decade, the gun-homicide rate has fallen to 4.07 per 100,000, which equates to a 28 percent reduction in homicides with the use of firearms. This decline in homicides follows a five-fold increase in a “shall-issue” (the granting of a permit to carry a concealed weapon is subject only to meeting certain criteria laid out in the law) and unrestricted concealed-carry laws in states from 1986 to 2006.
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
its just rope a dope. I wouldn’t believe anything MSNBC says.
But more criminal aliens crossing the border = more crime near the border...MSM sees no causation/correlation.
**Illegals increasingly charged in violent crimes**
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2481863/posts
Is this a when-pigs-will-fly moment?
Yes.
Uh oh...
Bump for later
This is a ploy so as to try to get an audience for their failing network.
MSNBC actually reporting the TRUTH??!! And about GUNS, no less! Perhaps the network heads are at last fed up with having fewer viewers than “Tom and Jerry” on the Cartoon Network!
Wait till they learn that besides saving lives, guns save FREEDOM.
Sorry about that, my comment was clipped off?
I would say so, yes. Somebody hosed the pooch big time. Hope they don't lose their job over this monumental blunder.
Kel-tec p3at, never leave home without it.
Shelly the gun haters don’t care about public safety, they either claim all coercive force as the province of government or they are hopeless phobics.
Exactly... they always put a good face of legitimacy when no real legislation is being talked of, but when it comes for crunch time, watch them attacking you and calling you a terrorist.
It’s all smokes and mirror. I am not cooperating with any media investigation and report until they report on Zero’s illegitimacy as president and promote openly for the repeal of this disaster health care fraud meant to pimp trash homos on us by force while they take the good stuff from us.
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