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The oft-cited credo that more guns equal more crime is being tested by facts on the ground this year: Even as gun ownership has surged in the US in the past year, violent crime, including murder and robbery, has dropped steeply.
Concurrently, the FBI reports that gun sales especially of assault-style rifles and handguns, two main targets of gun-control groups are up at least 12 percent nationally since the election of President Obama, a dramatic run on guns prompted in part by so-far-unwarranted fears that Democrats in Congress and the White House will curtail gun rights and carve apart the Second Amendment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Societ...more-crime-Not-in-2009-FBI-crime-report-shows.
Concurrently, the FBI reports that gun sales especially of assault-style rifles and handguns, two main targets of gun-control groups are up at least 12 percent nationally since the election of President Obama, a dramatic run on guns prompted in part by so-far-unwarranted fears that Democrats in Congress and the White House will curtail gun rights and carve apart the Second Amendment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Societ...more-crime-Not-in-2009-FBI-crime-report-shows.