Puzzling to you perhaps, but crime isn't the only concern we have.
Ummmm, yes.
It's only puzzling if you are looking at the causality backwards.
Tell us again, why do police officers, Secret Service agents, and bodyguards carry pistols?
A person with a pistol, and TRAINED in the proper use of it, is much safer than somebody who is unarmed.
Because:
1) You aren't one.
2) You don't know any.
3) You don't know anybody who knows any.
4) You're probably at least six degrees of separation removed from any.
5) IOW, you're a miserable, whinging pansy. GFY.
This guy may also be confusing cause and effect. A big part of the crime drop is that ownership of firearms has increased over the past two decades.
Does wearing a life vest make you safer? Only when you’re on a boat.
Carrying a pistol makes those who would victimize me less safe. And that’s just what it’s for, boys and girls.
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“the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades”
And gun sales and CCW licenses have been going up.......what a coincidence.
That this writer does not see the possibility of cause-and-effect in those two facts tells us a lot about the reasoning skills of the writer, and what it tells us is not flattering.
Everything they see? This dude's delusional ...
"Firearms fanciers" generally restrict themselves to inanimate targets, game animals, and vermin.
"[E]verything they see" is more the purview of Chicago gang-bangers and Baltimore hoodrats.
0bama uses horrible grammar in formal speech; his sycophants follow his lead.
Wearing a seat belt does not guarantee that you will survive a vehicle collision, but I wear one because it is basic safety equipment. The gun I carry is also basic safety equipment that I wear when going out, no different than wearing a seat belt.
MAKE you safer .... no.
But it does give you more options should an unsafe situation arise.
“... where firearms fanciers get to shoot everything they see. ...” Such is the “mind”set of NPR stooge. Stopped reading at that point.
If you train and if you are mature in thought with control of your emotions, hell yes.
Cause, meet effect.
the FBI tells us violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically for two decades
So you need to take my gun because of the epidemic of violence but I don’t need it because there isn’t actually an epidemic of violence...
I need my gun BECAUSE you want to take it.
Fact 1: “...o many Americans are choosing to arm themselves...”
Fact 2: “...violent crime and property crime have been falling dramatically...”
NPR: “Puzzled”
...and always will be. When the world does not conform to Lieberal dogma, the world must be wrong.
It makes me feel better. Constitutionality aside, the left is all about feelings, so hence if I feel better then it is good, just like queers feel good to be queer and that is applauded.
The difference is queers are not a threat to the powers to be and they want me unarmed.
People arming themselves has been rising dramatically for two decades. 2+2=4