Despite endless gun violence reports put forward by the establishment media, the dirty little secret is firearm homicides have plummeted over the past 25 years.
Yet most Americans, particularly Democrats, believe firearm murders have risen period.
Washington Post analysis shows Democrats, followed closely by independents, are more apt to believe firearm murders have increased. And this feeds the Democrat psyche which is already more prone to support an expansion of gun control laws.
But the reality is that the high water mark for firearm murders was 1994 while 2017, the most recent year with complete data on incidents, shows a sharp drop. There were “16,136 [firearm murders] in 1994” but only “10,982” in 2017.
And if looked at in terms of the murder rate, instead of simply the raw murder numbers, the drop in firearm homicides is even more evident.
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Joe did you see what the thugs did to the NYC cops today with water ?
ReplyDeleteFirearm murders are down because more people ARE armed. The thugs in the cities aren't so brave if someone is going to shoot back.
ReplyDeleteRemember: An armed society is a polite society.
And those scary black guns, those so-called assault weapons? They only account for 2% of the firearm murders.
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