Posted on 12/31/2009 10:13:40 AM PST by GVnana
And this is during a horrible economy when crime rates typically rise. The MSM will dutifully ignore this, of course.
I believe the graph looks like a hockey stick.
Recorded gun sales are transacted between law abiding citizens and licensed dealers.
Therefore, there can’t be any correlation between recorded gun sales and criminal activity.
That is not the point I am making
The big majority of murders are criminals settling differences so if the murder rate is down something is influencing that statistic and gun sales wouldn’t be it
Most murders are criminals killing each other and they know who they are .It isn’t some guy just walking down the street
A lot of the other murders are domestic violence
Legitimate gun ownership doesn’t affect these numbers so saying the drop of 10% is due to law abiding citizens owning more guns doesn’t compute
Without knowing the demographics of the victims No conclusion of that sort can be made —maybe it is true but without all the variables you can’t be sure
And yet the numbers have dropped.
3 categories of murders
1. Criminals killing each other
2. Domestic violence
3. Criminals killing law abiding citizens
Increased gun ownership would only affect 3.
Without knowing the statistics for the 3 categories you can’t make any claims
BTW that would also hold true if the % went up
The claim from the left is that more guns means more murders. If there are more guns but less murders so much for that claim.
Again it depends on the categories
It depends on the claim.
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