Posted on 12/31/2009 10:13:40 AM PST by GVnana
Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI next year.
According to gun control supporter dogma—“more guns means more crime”—the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and “large” ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.
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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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