2aguy
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in the 1990s....2 million people carried guns for self defense.
in 2007, 4.7 milion people carried guns for self defense.
in 2013, 13 million people now carry guns for self defense.
And during that period of time....gun murder rates went down, not up.
During that period of time, violent crime rates went down, not up.
Now, the FBI says we are experiencing a 51 year low homicide rate....
FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low
The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000. To find a lower homicide rate, we must travel back to 1957 when the total homicide rate hit 4.0 per 100,000.
Homicide rates were considerably higher in the United States during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, but over the past 25 years, have fallen nearly continuously:
Over a recent 20 year period, the number of new guns in the US that were either manufactured in the US or imported into the US increased 141 percent from 6.6 million new guns in 1994 to 16 million in 2013. That means a gross total of 132 million new guns were added into the US population over that time period.
So, do more guns equal more crime? The data would seem to indicate the answer is "obviously not." (For more on this, see here.)
Naturally, these facts are steadfastly ignored by people who can't do basic arithmetic, like the constitutional law Professor David S. Cohen who wrote Monday at Rolling Stone that the second Amendment must be repealed because it is "a threat to liberty" and a "suicide pact."
in 2007, 4.7 milion people carried guns for self defense.
in 2013, 13 million people now carry guns for self defense.
And during that period of time....gun murder rates went down, not up.
During that period of time, violent crime rates went down, not up.
Now, the FBI says we are experiencing a 51 year low homicide rate....
FBI: US Homicide Rate at 51-Year Low
The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available, was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000. To find a lower homicide rate, we must travel back to 1957 when the total homicide rate hit 4.0 per 100,000.
Homicide rates were considerably higher in the United States during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, but over the past 25 years, have fallen nearly continuously:
Over a recent 20 year period, the number of new guns in the US that were either manufactured in the US or imported into the US increased 141 percent from 6.6 million new guns in 1994 to 16 million in 2013. That means a gross total of 132 million new guns were added into the US population over that time period.
So, do more guns equal more crime? The data would seem to indicate the answer is "obviously not." (For more on this, see here.)
Naturally, these facts are steadfastly ignored by people who can't do basic arithmetic, like the constitutional law Professor David S. Cohen who wrote Monday at Rolling Stone that the second Amendment must be repealed because it is "a threat to liberty" and a "suicide pact."
