Posted on 06/08/2010 12:50:16 PM PDT by JohnRLott
President Obama surely didn’t intend it, but he deserves some credit for last year’s 7.4 percent drop in murder rates. His election caused gun sales to soar, and crime rates to plummet.
While gun sales started notably rising in October 2008, sales really soared immediately after Mr. Obama won the presidential race. 450,000 more people bought guns in November 2008 than bought them in November 2007, that’s over a 40 percent increase in sales. By comparison, the change from November 2006 to November 2007 was only about 35,000. Over the last decade, the average year-to-year increase in monthly sales was only 21,000.
The increase in sales continued well beyond November 2008. From November 2008 to October 2009, almost 2.5 million more people bought guns in the 12 months after the election than in the preceding 12 months. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
an armed society, is a polite society.
Thanks.
Second time I’ve put it in. Just in case someone misses it. heehee
And...
an armed country makes for polite countries
The Leftists.....
D’oh!
Sorry!
The Leftists should be able to read the statistics and understand why the rates went down.
Conversely, taking guns away from the law-abiding will logically cause an increase in crime.
What does it tell you that they will want to do this, even though it will mean the deaths of innocent people?
That's always a good thing to do. There are far too many threads here for all of us to catch the good stuff on the first go-round.
's alright, B. We all miss stuff occasionally.
nice lock, stock, and barrel... the gun’s not bad looking either...
teeman
amap... (all men are pigs)
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