Posted on 05/10/2013 9:58:48 AM PDT by marktwain
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has not made a peep about gun control since news came out that firearms-related deaths were way down. President Obama has ignored it and continued to pursue more gun-control laws. Their reaction shows how this news screws up their agenda to keep the decline in gun-related homicides a secret from Americans so that they can pass restrictions on the Second Amendment.
The Justice Department released a study Tuesday that showed firearm-related homicides in the U.S. annually declined 39 percent from 18,253 in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011. Nonfatal firearm crimes declined 69 percent from 1.5 million to 467,300 in that time frame.
Mr. Bloomberg, who is usually very vocal on any gun-related news, fell mute. Neither he, nor his usually very active organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns, has said anything gun related this week. A spokesman for Mr. Bloomberg’s group did not respond to a request for comment. If the news had been that a bunch of people were shot, you can be assured that Mr. Bloomberg would have been in front of the microphones.
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The reason they are hiding now is because they don’t want the public know that crime has gone down at the same time that gun ownership and carry permits have increased. The have — until now — been effective in hiding these facts.
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Classic Orwellian doublethink.
Dr Lott cracked this code close too two decades ago with his book, More Guns, Less Crime.
Since, then any valid study has proven his research:
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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
All their stupid communist agendas have facts against them. Global Warming, guns cause more crime, raise taxes, “debt is good”, spending more on education, etc, etc, etc.
“If the facts do not fit the agenda, they are not mentioned.”
Exactly, just like the Gosnell trial.
Almost a 40% reduction?
That’s so amazing, and totally ignored by the Lame Stream News idiots.
You may have seen such "think" already this week when this story broke. "Violence is down so what do you need guns for?"
Those statistics make no sense. How could “gun violence” be down despite the huge increase in private ownership of firearms by law-abiding Americans? I thought guns did bad things or made ordinary people do bad things. This is almost saying that guns in the hands of good people stop criminals from doing bad things, and that can’t be true, can it?
All the news that fits the agenda. This don’t fit..........
” If the facts do not fit the agenda, they are not mentioned. “
Exactly.
A local paper, The Detroit Free Press did not even run the AP or Reuters piece. The FREEP is very left wing.
Not me. I’m verklempt!
“Almost a 40% reduction?
That’s so amazing, and totally ignored by the Lame Stream News idiots.”
When you take population growth into consideration and compare apples to apples with per capital rates of homicide, the reduction has been 50 percent. That is correct. Homicide rates have dropped by half.
This means that resricting my right to keep and bear arms won't do a damn thing to stop "gun violence", and the slimey politicians know this.
So, what is their real intent?
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