FBI's Crime Report Bad News for Anti-Gunners

The FBI recently released its crime report for 2007 and, once again, gun control supporters are taking it on the chin.

It's not just that the nation's violent crime rate decreased slightly between 2006 and 2007. It's that every year since 2002 it has been lower than anytime since 1974, leading the Justice Department to say that violent crime is "near a 30-year low." Since 1991, violent crime has dropped 38 percent. Murder is now at a 40-year low, lower than anytime since 1966 every year from 1999 to the present, and down 43 percent since 1991.

"More guns means more crime?" Only in anti-gunner "La-La Land." Violent crime has fallen as the number of guns has increased 4.5 million a year. There are more gun owners, owning more guns than ever before, and violent crime is lower than anytime since Gerald Ford became president!

We can hardly wait to see the Brady Campaign try to spin this one with its asinine "state grades" stunt. In 2007, the major U.S. cities with the highest murder rates were cities with severe gun control. The top three? Detroit (where Michigan law requires a permit to purchase a handgun), Baltimore (where Maryland law restricts private handgun sales and requires a seven-day waiting period on handgun sales by dealers), and the District of Columbia (with its handgun ban and its firearm registration law). Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and D.C. had the highest robbery rates.

In 2007, as in years past, Right-to-Carry states had lower violent crime rates, on average, compared to the rest of the country with total violent crime lower by 24 percent, murder by 28 percent, robbery by 50 percent, and aggravated assault by 11 percent. Further, in 2007, 32 percent of murders were committed without firearms of any sort--knives accounted for 12 percent, hands and feet six percent, and blunt objects four percent. Rifles and shotguns (semi-automatic and otherwise) accounted for three percent each, and typically "assault weapons" have accounted for about one percent.




I wondered if the decrease in gun-related crime has anything to do with the "buyback" programs that crime-ridden cities have been hosting - where people turn in their guns to be destroyed for a free lunch or whatever. It seems that would take the guns out of the hands of the irresponsible owners and increase the percentage of registered, legal owners.

We'll probably see an increase in violent crimes as our economy worsens - that factor has always been linked directly to crime waves.



At first I was ready to dismiss the belief that gun buy backs work, until I thought about it a little more, now I'm not sure. On the surface, it appears that the gun buy backs only take guns out of the hands of people that had no desire to use them and didn't want them anyway. I guess a secondary effect would be that it does keep those guns from ending up in pawn shops, and newspaper ads, where they would be purchased by people that may want to use them for bad stuff.

Another explanation for the reduction maybe that men just aren't what they used to be, lower testosterone levels and increased estrogen levels, may account for some of it. Every generation is becoming less "manly" than those before, even as much as a 50% drop in levels from father to son. Behavioral training as well... boys are taught to act like little girls... be quiet, don't play rough, be carefull you'll get hurt...



This is good news to the NRA and hopefully they hear this.Guns do not kill,people kill in the wrong hands.Guns do not have arms and legs which do not get up by themselves.Most states that have right to carry laws like Michigan and Texas,the crime rate is down and this has been shown.









Let¡¯s say, rather than ban or buy back guns, why not make them mandatory? Here is a real life story on how this may be a more logical alternative. This is about a town in north metro Atlanta. I wonder what would happen in Detroit, LA, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, or DC if a law like this were implemented.
Just some food-for-thought! opcorn:







This whole thread follows Maximus84 unattributed posting that was a cut and paste from the NRA http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4181 and as such has an obvious pro gun slant.

The original FBI report had nothing to say about gun control. It's all about the spin, like the quote in Maximus84's plagiarism: “More guns means more crime?" Only in anti-gunner "La-La Land." Show me anything close to that in the FBI report if you can even find it Maximus.

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