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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 09/14/2010 11:44:51 AM PDT by Uncledave
No, silly. That isn’t how the Federal Bureau of Investigation would characterize the results of Crime in the United States 2009.
But they did note an across the board drop in violent crime, despite the dire economic circumstances we find ourselves in.
The common assumption held by many is that crime is motivated by economic desperation. As we are in a recession and the real unemployment rate is well over 15% once you factor in the under-employed and those who have simply stopped looking, falling crime rates come as a real shock.
And they have been significant declines.
* Each of the violent crime categories decreased from 2008—murder (7.3 percent), robbery (8.0 percent), aggravated assault (4.2 percent), and forcible rape (2.6 percent). * During 2009, 43.9 percent of all property crimes in the U.S. were recorded in the South, with 22.7 percent in the West, 20.8 percent in the Midwest, and 12.6 percent in the Northeast. * Each of the property crime categories also dropped from 2008—motor vehicle theft (17.1 percent), larceny-theft (4.0 percent), and burglary (1.3 percent). * Among the 1,318,398 violent crimes were 15,241 murders; 88,097 forcible rapes; 408,217 robberies; and 806,843 aggravated assaults. * Among the 9,320,971 property crimes were an estimated 2,199,125 burglaries; 6,327,230 larceny-thefts; 794,616 thefts of motor vehicles; and 58,871 arsons. * During 2009, the South accounted for 42.5 percent of all violent crime in the nation, followed by the West (22.9 percent), the Midwest (19.6 percent), and the Northeast (15.0 percent).
This all occurred in the same year that Americans purchased 14 million firearms—more than the combined active armies of the top 21 countries in the world. We also purchased an estimated 14+ billion rounds of ammunition during that same time period. It is also worth remembering that these purchases were made during a year where gun rights were ascendant, and Americans could carry weapons in more areas as firearm owener’s rights continued to go mainstream.
It is fair to compare these two seemingly unrelated facts? You’re damn right it is.
These data explode the fallacy told by the media, anti-gun organizations, and a shrinking number of politicians that “more guns equals more crime.”
An Armed Society is a polite society. I always say.
An Armed Society is a polite society
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Let Freedom Ring,
I live in a VERY polite town.
I've not bought a new gun for a long time, but my trusty old faithful "Big Mo" still works the way it always did. God help the sad sack that takes one of these... vest or no vest.
The criminals and the govt knows that if we are armed they can’t push us around.
With the Feds threatening us at almost every turn, people are getting armed more than we used to.
The govt thugs AND the street thugs must be taking note of this fact.
I think it’s more a function of the strong sub-economy.
HAHA!
“Remember the news stories and all the libs scratching their heads in bewilderment over headlines like : ‘Crime Declines Despite Increase In Prison Population.’ Add firearms to that mix...they’re still clueless.”
Check this story out from Yahoo about the same news mentioning the Leftist belief that poverty causes crime. If that was the Great Depression should have seen the worst crime statistics for the 20th century.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100913/us_yblog_upshot/why-is-crime-falling-in-a-recession
Common sense would seem to suggest that economic downturns spur increases in crime, on the general principle that desperate times give rise to desperate measures. So it’s a bit surprising to learn, via new statistics released by the FBI, that violent crime dropped for the third year in a row in 2009 by 5.3 percent. The FBI’s report on trends in crime data covers about 96 percent of the U.S. population.
“Forty-year-old non-offenders who get laid off are unlikely to start robbing 7-11s,” University of Colorado sociology professor Tim Wadsworth wrote to The Upshot in an email. “Most of us think that the relationship between the economy and crime rates has more to do with high rates of joblessness influencing the health and well-being of communities.” Once joblessness damages communities, young men — who make up the bulk of offenders — begin to commit more crimes, he says.
LOL I was thinking about the same idiot talking head that said that....that was quite a fews years back and I laughed at the idiot...clueless
There is an important component that is missing from such an article. Simply put, concealed carry licensees are the most peaceful and law abiding of any identifiable demographic group.
In 2000, H. Sterling Burnett, wrote an article for the National Center for Policy Analysis, titled Texas Concealed Handgun Carriers:Law-abiding Public Benefactors. [1]. buried in this excellent article is the following:
In an unpublished report, engineering statistician William Sturdevant found that concealed carry licensees had arrest rates far lower than the general population for every category of crime. For instance:
* Licensees were 5.7 times less likely to be arrested for violent offenses than the general public - 127 per 100,000 population versus 730 per 100,000.
* Licensees were 14 times less likely to be arrested for nonviolent offenses than the general public - 386 per 100,000 population versus 5,212 per 100,000.
* Further, the general public is 1.4 times more likely to be arrested for murder than licensees [ see Figure I ], and no licensee had been arrested for negligent manslaughter.
[1] link: http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba324
Why do I think that Obama is going to run for re-election *bragging* about how *he*, single-handedly lowered the crime rate?
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If they weren't clueless, they wouldn't be Leftists.
I'm very sorry to hear about their loss in a boating accident ...
You know, sadly I lost all of mine the same way. Must be going around.
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