I’m all for having everyone discuss all the issues ad infinitum. The longer we discuss matters such as gun control (as in stance and sight picture) the better off we’ll be.
Give it time for the emotions to fade and stop propelling these f-——g weenie politicians towards selling out the Constitution.
The murder rate is the lowest it has been since the early 1960s
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics
Crime rate per 100,000 population
Year Murder and nonnegligent
manslaughter rate
1960 5.1
1961 4.8
1962 4.6
1963 4.6
1964 4.9
1965 5.1
1966 5.6
1967 6.2
1968 6.9
1969 7.3
1970 7.9
1971 8.6
1972 9.0
1973 9.4
1974 9.8
1975 9.6
1976 8.7
1977 8.8
1978 9.0
1979 9.8
1980 10.2
1981 9.8
1982 9.1
1983 8.3
1984 7.9
1985 8.0
1986 8.6
1987 8.3
1988 8.5
1989 8.7
1990 9.4
1991 9.8
1992 9.3
1993 9.5
1994 9.0
1995 8.2
1996 7.4
1997 6.8
1998 6.3
1999 5.7
2000 5.5
2001 5.6
2002 5.6
2003 5.7
2004 5.5
2005 5.6
2006 5.7
2007 5.6
2008 5.4
2009 5.0
2010 4.8
http://www.ucrdatatool.gov/Search/Crime/Crime.cfm
Also see "Multiple Victim Public Shootings" by John Lott
a copy is available at http://www.thevrwc.org/JohnLott.pdf