Posted on 12/06/2015 1:31:57 PM PST by Hojczyk
Chart in first post
In a December 2013 Breitbart article, “Congressional Study: Murder Rate Plummets as Gun Ownership Soars,†Awr Hawkins referred to the CRS report referenced above and connected the two trends:
So after all the pro-gun control grandstanding and the relentless focus on how the so-called easy availability of guns drives up crime, the CRS report shows that more guns–especially more concealable guns–has actually correlated with less crime.
Bottom Line: Even if you’re not convinced that increased gun ownership reduces violent crime and gun homicides, you should be totally convinced of this indisputable fact: Gun violence has been decreasing significantly over time, not increasing as you’ll frequently hear from anti-gun politicians and progressives.
The gun-related homicide rate of 3.6 deaths per 100,000 population in each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2013 makes those recent years the safest in at least 20 years, and possibly the safest in modern US history, since “older data [before 1993] suggest that gun violence might have been even more widespread previously,†according to Ehrenfreund.
(Excerpt) Read more at aei.org ...
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This is great - except liberals can’t do math... can’t read graphs, and the few that can don’t WANT to believe what they see ...
Do you think Obama’s going to call for more gun control based on his irrational delusional thinking? I’m gonna bet on it.
Undeniable fact which the left continues to deny. Much like their non-existent “Climate Change”.
Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts ... from Ed Chenel, a police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in:
* Australia-wide, homicides are up 6.2 percent ...
* Australia-wide, assaults are up 9.6 percent ...
* Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly, while the resident is at home.
Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in 'successfully ridding Australian society of guns ...'
You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience speaks for itself. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it's too late!
bkmk
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That information seems counter to what is publicized. Any link to an article or database with this information?
I’m finding the same thing as you. I guess just because it’s on Facebook it isn’t necessarily true.
http://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-before-and-after-gun-bans/
“Every place that has been banned guns has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it’s Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland.”
Why are Democrats so determined to turn the greatest country on Earth into a violent hell-hole?
Glad to see AEI finally gets around to this. If you had been here at Free Republic, you’d have known this from late 2012. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3118607/posts
My fault, folks, for not verifying before posting.
“Truth-or-Fiction” doesn’t like it.
“Snopes” dances all around before concluding this:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
“The main point to be learned here is that determining the effect of changes in Australia’s gun ownership laws and the government’s firearm buy-back program on crime rates requires a complex long-term analysis and can’t be discerned from the small, mixed grab bag of short-term statistics offered here. And no matter what the outcome of that analysis, the results aren’t necessarily applicable to the USA, where laws regarding gun ownership are (and always have been) much different than those in Australia.”
For Snopes, that sounds like it is true, but they don’t like it.
I take from this that we have become worse shots in the last 20 years. Do we need more gun ranges in the inner cities?
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